Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting. So at our IB school, which has a long IB and OOB waitlist, it looks like everyone who matched had a meh draw. The #1 kid who matched is .51. That makes me think the waitlist won't move much because those kids won't get in elsewhere.

Am I missing the site where they published the lottery master number of those matched? I only see the waitlists.

Since you know what your number is on a given waitlist, you can look up your own master number.
If you're not on any waitlists, then you can only assume that you got a pretty good number.

Why does the number have so many digits?

Where do you find the #?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We had .96 last year and .02 this year. Keep playing--with a # like that it can only get better!

How do you know what your number was last year?

One of the MV waitlists (maybe the first one) included the #. No surprise, we we were in the lowest 5% on all waitlists.

Anonymous wrote:Interesting. So at our IB school, which has a long IB and OOB waitlist, it looks like everyone who matched had a meh draw. The #1 kid who matched is .51. That makes me think the waitlist won't move much because those kids won't get in elsewhere.

Am I missing the site where they published the lottery master number of those matched? I only see the waitlists.

Nice product placement for Tableau Software there.

Do they release this info for charters?

My guess for last year is that we were about .45, but I'd love to see the data if it's available.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We had .96 last year and .02 this year. Keep playing--with a # like that it can only get better!

How do you know what your number was last year?

+1. I am the OP and we had a terrible draw last year too but I do not know our number. The waitlists did not have this column last year. Unless it was somewhere else?

Anonymous wrote:We had .96 last year and .02 this year. Keep playing--with a # like that it can only get better!

How do you know what your number was last year?

I would say Capitol Hill Montessori would be one of those lists that may move a little quicker. Their waitlisters are in the 20% and higher.

This is so interesting! I'd love to see it all in a big apples to apples file, rather than have to pull down per school. (Hint: I'm a data geek)

We had .96 last year and .02 this year. Keep playing--with a # like that it can only get better!

Interesting. So at our IB school, which has a long IB and OOB waitlist, it looks like everyone who matched had a meh draw. The #1 kid who matched is .51. That makes me think the waitlist won't move much because those kids won't get in elsewhere.

Did anyone else notice the new waitlists have your master lottery number? http://dcps.dc.gov/DCPS/Learn+About+Schools/Lottery+and+Admissions:+Apply+to+Our+Schools/Anonymized+Wait+Lists

It confirmed that we had an awful pull (0.92). In our child's daycare room, one child is first on the first for a popular school (0.06).

Another child got in to the same school for PK-4 (only non-sibling) so they must have had an amazing number. The first person on the waitlist has a 0.005.

Still cool to see, thanks DC!