So, is there ever a way to find out what original lottery number is/was?

Also, you will only know if your lottery # is bad if you get terrible wait list numbers at all/most of your schools

Yeah, this is much easier of a process. Yes, it's a waiting game but not having to fight for a time stamp at Yu Ying, or balancing 20 lotteries was much worse.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This whole process is torture.

No, torture was having to know someone to get in OOB. Torture was camping out for days to get your OOB or charter application time stamped. Torture was entering a different lottery for every school.

This is far better than it was just a few years ago.

I remember the literal tents pitched at Yu Ying. Yes, waiting is hard after the deadline closes, but it is such a smooth process and much more fair than the old way.

Anonymous wrote:This whole process is torture.

No, torture was having to know someone to get in OOB. Torture was camping out for days to get your OOB or charter application time stamped. Torture was entering a different lottery for every school.

This is far better than it was just a few years ago.

This whole process is torture.

Anonymous wrote:If you're in boundary PK without a sibling, can't you call the school to find out, say, how many sibling applications they received, ergo knowing approx if you have a shot?

They will only be able to guess. And if someone matches for another grade with a sibling in your grade, they will jump ahead of non-siblings as well. So it isn't very helpful.

If you're in boundary PK without a sibling, can't you call the school to find out, say, how many sibling applications they received, ergo knowing approx if you have a shot?

For the purpose of transparency (a concept with which DC is blindingly unfamiliar but should strive to introduce), parents actually should be informed of their lottery numbers.

"Trust us, it's honest" isn't something anyone in DCPS/OSSE can say with a straight face after all (unless they're holding still for a pie-throwing contest).

Results are posted the evening of March 30. You will be waiting a while.

You will know you got a good number when you get into your first choice school.

And no one "gets" their number until after the deadline and all entries are in.

You will never learn your actual number. you will just get notified of where you matched (and didn't.)

Your confirmation number is not your lottery number.

I just submitted my lottery applications for PK3. Waiting on results like everyone else but wondering from those of you who have done this before what's considered a "good" or "bad" lottery number? Sorry if this is a dumb question but not sure how large the pool is and how to know whether I got a good number or not..