Anonymous wrote:
This actually always bothered me, that people could see all the waitlist info for individual children, including their sibling and IB status. I know I'm in the minority on this.

Because you didn't feel it was anyone else's business? Or because you thought that you could be de-anonymonized? Or something else?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:But wouldn't it increase your ability to know whether to decline the spot you got or to drop off your higher ranked school's waitlist if you could see the data now? If the point is to move the waitlists along, the sooner we can see the information the better. Making each parent call each school is a return to the dark ages.

+1 It is absurd that they have gone lightyears backwards in terms of transparency with this year's lottery. Every other year, DCPS has made all the lottery data available so that you could look for tracking numbers across all schools and determine where else a kid in front of yours on a waitlist is waitlisted. Then you can make educated guesses about which children might jump if they get the call from another school. Plus, it's useful to know if the kids in front of yours on the waitlist have any sort of preference that might indicate a greater likelihood that they'd take a spot if offered. So many reasons why the data is necessary, including inspiring faith in the lottery results themselves. If no data is offered, then the conspiracy theories start...

This actually always bothered me, that people could see all the waitlist info for individual children, including their sibling and IB status. I know I'm in the minority on this.

Their advice to "call the schools" to find out during DC CAS testing week is ridiculous. If we all start calling all the schools to find out, I'm sure the results will be online soon.

Anonymous wrote:But wouldn't it increase your ability to know whether to decline the spot you got or to drop off your higher ranked school's waitlist if you could see the data now? If the point is to move the waitlists along, the sooner we can see the information the better. Making each parent call each school is a return to the dark ages.

+1 It is absurd that they have gone lightyears backwards in terms of transparency with this year's lottery. Every other year, DCPS has made all the lottery data available so that you could look for tracking numbers across all schools and determine where else a kid in front of yours on a waitlist is waitlisted. Then you can make educated guesses about which children might jump if they get the call from another school. Plus, it's useful to know if the kids in front of yours on the waitlist have any sort of preference that might indicate a greater likelihood that they'd take a spot if offered. So many reasons why the data is necessary, including inspiring faith in the lottery results themselves. If no data is offered, then the conspiracy theories start...

But wouldn't it increase your ability to know whether to decline the spot you got or to drop off your higher ranked school's waitlist if you could see the data now? If the point is to move the waitlists along, the sooner we can see the information the better. Making each parent call each school is a return to the dark ages.

The schools have the information. One DCPS contact told me the information that I was looking for when asked. I did not ask for specific information about IB, OOB and so forth. I thought that I would wait until after May 1st and see how many families declined spots.

Just called our highest waitlist number (14) for PS3 at a school that is liked but isn't one of the "tops" and was told we basically have no chance.
Good times.

The only one that is public from DCPS is the one from last year.

I don't know where, but I think it is available for DCPS schools because a friend mentioned it to me.

Has anyone heard if and when we're going to get more detail on waitlists for individual schools? How are parents with waitlist numbers supposed to make a decision without knowing more about who is in front of them on each school's list? Not names of course, but individual tracking numbers and preference data like sibling, IB, OOB, and so on that can be compared on other waitlists to determine the likelihood of waitlist movement? Last year this was immediately available when the results were released by DCPS. Does anyone know if and when we're going to see anything?