Anonymous
Post 01/28/2013 17:22     Subject: What were your 6 picks?
Anonymous wrote:Get ready to laugh.....

Janney
Lafayette
Murch
Key
Stoddard
Mann

I am cracking myself up!


pre-K? and are you IB for any of the schools? I will have a similar list (alhough I will probably not bother will Mann and Janney)
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2013 17:19     Subject: What were your 6 picks?
According to the "chat" DCPS had on Friday about the lottery, Deal and Wilson are the only two schools that are simply NOT accepting OOB. When pressed, the DCPS folks running the chat did not say that any other schools were off the table in terms of OOB. However, it's difficult to see how over-enrolled schools--Janney and other--will have any spots for true OOB students after all the preference categories are applied (IB w/ sibling, IB, sibling of current OOB student, proximity, siblings of new OOB students who got in the older grades, etc.). If you have other viable options it's probably fine to waste lottery spots on long shot schools, but if getting in a program is really important to you (because continuing in private is not an option or you don't feel like your chances at the charters are good) it's probably better to consider schools that might actually have a handful of OOB spots.
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2013 17:14     Subject: Re:What were your 6 picks?
Is Janney closed again this year?

I know of a family that got Key PreK this year (OOB)
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2013 17:02     Subject: What were your 6 picks?
Anonymous wrote:Get ready to laugh.....

Janney
Lafayette
Murch
Key
Stoddard
Mann

I am cracking myself up!


You might have a shot if you're talking about an older grade. What is your IB?
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2013 16:59     Subject: What were your 6 picks?
Get ready to laugh.....

Janney
Lafayette
Murch
Key
Stoddard
Mann

I am cracking myself up!
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2013 16:46     Subject: What were your 6 picks?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Brent
Maury
SWS
Tyler Spanish
Montessori at Logan
JO Wilson


Whoa, talk about swinging for the fences! If you do not have IB or sibling preference at any of these schools, you are likely to be offered a spot only at J.O, with an outside shot at SWS.


don't follow -- why more of a shot at SWS than CH Montessori? same boundaries = none. only real difference -- Ch Montessori bigger and more potential sibs


Nobody knows yet how many applicants there will be for SWS, since it's the first time there is no neighborhood preference and the first time there is a PS3 offered.
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2013 16:30     Subject: What were your 6 picks?
I still haven't been able to access the lottery. Grr.
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2013 16:29     Subject: What were your 6 picks?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Brent
Maury
SWS
Tyler Spanish
Montessori at Logan
JO Wilson


Whoa, talk about swinging for the fences! If you do not have IB or sibling preference at any of these schools, you are likely to be offered a spot only at J.O, with an outside shot at SWS.


Our son is in a private preschool that we love. We figured that if he doesn't get into the DCPS school we love, we'll keep him there. JO Wilson is our catastrophe school (like if one of us loses a job or a limb). But that's why they call it the lottery - someone's gotta win it right?
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2013 16:25     Subject: What were your 6 picks?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Brent
Maury
SWS
Tyler Spanish
Montessori at Logan
JO Wilson


Whoa, talk about swinging for the fences! If you do not have IB or sibling preference at any of these schools, you are likely to be offered a spot only at J.O, with an outside shot at SWS.


don't follow -- why more of a shot at SWS than CH Montessori? same boundaries = none. only real difference -- Ch Montessori bigger and more potential sibs
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2013 15:35     Subject: What were your 6 picks?
Anonymous wrote:Brent
Maury
SWS
Tyler Spanish
Montessori at Logan
JO Wilson


Whoa, talk about swinging for the fences! If you do not have IB or sibling preference at any of these schools, you are likely to be offered a spot only at J.O, with an outside shot at SWS.
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2013 15:03     Subject: What were your 6 picks?
Brent
Maury
SWS
Tyler Spanish
Montessori at Logan
JO Wilson
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2013 14:49     Subject: What were your 6 picks?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I was interested in dual-language so my sections were:

Powell
Bancroft
Marie-Reed
Barnard


FYI - Barnard is NOT a dual-language school.


I know that, but they do offer it as a subject.
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2013 14:40     Subject: What were your 6 picks?
No but they do have Spanish classes for preschool. It's not immersion or every day.
What about Oyster? What other schools are dual language?
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2013 14:00     Subject: What were your 6 picks?
Anonymous wrote:I was interested in dual-language so my sections were:

Powell
Bancroft
Marie-Reed
Barnard


FYI - Barnard is NOT a dual-language school.
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2013 13:56     Subject: What were your 6 picks?
I was interested in dual-language so my sections were:

Powell
Bancroft
Marie-Reed
Barnard