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Anonymous wrote:we matched at Payne (IB) for PK3 and waitlisted as follows:

Brent - 101
Maury - 93
SWS - 125
Ludlow - 52
Van Ness - 53
Cap Hill Montessori - 86
Tyler Spanish - 35

I feel like our only real shot is Van Ness but who knows what that will be like this year. We've heard very good things about Payne for PK so we're happy to have a spot.

Welcome to Payne. We're there right now and it has been a great experience. We can't wait for PK4 next year.

Sincere question- why would you rank Brent or Maury when it's mathematically impossible for you to get in?

Everyone kept saying this and I didn't list either of these schools on my list. My kid got a terrible lottery number and didn't get into our IB Hill school so it wouldn't have mattered, but I now realize that you have to take what happened in previous years with a grain of salt. It appears that Maury still wait listed IB kids, but that all IB kids got into Brent. This means that a few OOB kids did or at least might get into Brent this year. According to the Capitol Hill email traffic, the most likely theory about what happened is that real estate IB for Brent, which is also right near the Metro, got so expensive that families with young children can't afford to move there. There are simply fewer preschoolers in the neighborhood, which means demand is down. If you have a few extra spots on your list, it isn't a mistake to throw on a school that is convenient even if they didn't take kids last year. Apparently, things can change very rapidly and significantly from year to year.

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Anonymous wrote:No. All IB kids didn't get into Brent PK3 this year. It looks like all the IB siblings got in for PK3, but not all IB. Big difference.

That is a big difference, but I think the logic still stands. I know a number of people who got in to Brent with no sibling preference, which is very different from the last few years. The point is that schools change and your chances change from year to year. A school that was a long shot can become a school where you have a shot very quickly, just as a school where you think you have a good shot (like LT or JOW) can become an impossibility very quickly. Unless you have all low probability schools among your 12, it can't hurt to add a school where things might change.

You're a super idiot.

Be kind, everyone. It's a complex system, and not everyone has the time or inclination to immerse themselves in it. And you go a little off your rocker when you do. I speak from experience.

That being said, yes, getting into Brent PK3 this year as an OOB kid was never going to happen. But this is a smaller cohort than last year, so apply again for K. They may end up taking a number of OOB kids to fill the classes.

Brent took half a dozen OOB kids for K this year and will almost certainly take more next year. The current in-boundary PreK4 cohort (including those who couldn't lottery in) is a lot smaller than the current in-boundary K cohort.

I'm the poster who put Brent and Maury on our list and the reason was that we knew we weren't going to fill up our twelve and figured it couldn't hurt because you never know. If we were to get offered a spot even mid-year we would have to consider it. But yes, we knew it was almost impossible that we would get in OOB.

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Anonymous wrote:If a traditional school seems equally as good to a charter, which do you choose? Just curious about charters vs traditional.

Personally, I'd go with the traditional. They pay their teachers better.

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Anonymous wrote:No. All IB kids didn't get into Brent PK3 this year. It looks like all the IB siblings got in for PK3, but not all IB. Big difference.

That is a big difference, but I think the logic still stands. I know a number of people who got in to Brent with no sibling preference, which is very different from the last few years. The point is that schools change and your chances change from year to year. A school that was a long shot can become a school where you have a shot very quickly, just as a school where you think you have a good shot (like LT or JOW) can become an impossibility very quickly. Unless you have all low probability schools among your 12, it can't hurt to add a school where things might change.

You're a super idiot.

Be kind, everyone. It's a complex system, and not everyone has the time or inclination to immerse themselves in it. And you go a little off your rocker when you do. I speak from experience.

That being said, yes, getting into Brent PK3 this year as an OOB kid was never going to happen. But this is a smaller cohort than last year, so apply again for K. They may end up taking a number of OOB kids to fill the classes.

Brent took half a dozen OOB kids for K this year and will almost certainly take more next year. The current in-boundary PreK4 cohort (including those who couldn't lottery in) is a lot smaller than the current in-boundary K cohort.

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Anonymous wrote:22:19 I meant to add that out waitlist results read "Bancroft Elementary School - English Dominant"

I added Bancroft post-lottery and got a very low single-digit WL number. However, mine doesn't say "English Dominant" in my wait list results even though I know I clicked English. Strange.

Hmm I wonder if this post lottery process is having some glitches. We also got a low number for Bancroft (doesn't say English dominant), and for another school the sibling preference didn't go through (checked the box and filled in sibling's name).

MSDC informed me there's a delay with the sibling preference. Current school has to verify.

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Anonymous wrote:22:19 I meant to add that out waitlist results read "Bancroft Elementary School - English Dominant"

I added Bancroft post-lottery and got a very low single-digit WL number. However, mine doesn't say "English Dominant" in my wait list results even though I know I clicked English. Strange.

Hmm I wonder if this post lottery process is having some glitches. We also got a low number for Bancroft (doesn't say English dominant), and for another school the sibling preference didn't go through (checked the box and filled in sibling's name).

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Anonymous wrote:22:19 I meant to add that out waitlist results read "Bancroft Elementary School - English Dominant"

I added Bancroft post-lottery and got a very low single-digit WL number. However, mine doesn't say "English Dominant" in my wait list results even though I know I clicked English. Strange.

Anonymous wrote:22:19 I meant to add that out waitlist results read "Bancroft Elementary School - English Dominant"

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Anonymous wrote:I would be shocked if there were essentially no wait list after round 1 of the lottery for Bancroft PK3, especially since apP claims no preference. I knew IB families who never got in off the wait list last year and had lottery #s in the 30s even with the preference.

Is PP English or Spanish dominant? There are two waitlists at Bancroft now like Oyster, right?

We also added Bancroft PK3 post-lottery. English dominant. WL #8. Anyone think there's a good chance of getting a spot?

Are you still at 7/8? We added it post lottery, I think after I saw someone say that got 7, and we are listed even lower. I THiNK I clicked English, but it doesn't show like the others do. Kid is bilingual, so it probably doesn't matter, but still would like to know.

Still #7. I don't recall selecting language dominance, but I don't have the best memory either...so if I did it's English.

It shows the language right there in your results, so if you actually did this you'd know. Is this an April 1 thing? Screen shot or it didn't happen

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Anonymous wrote:I would be shocked if there were essentially no wait list after round 1 of the lottery for Bancroft PK3, especially since apP claims no preference. I knew IB families who never got in off the wait list last year and had lottery #s in the 30s even with the preference.

Is PP English or Spanish dominant? There are two waitlists at Bancroft now like Oyster, right?

We also added Bancroft PK3 post-lottery. English dominant. WL #8. Anyone think there's a good chance of getting a spot?

Are you still at 7/8? We added it post lottery, I think after I saw someone say that got 7, and we are listed even lower. I THiNK I clicked English, but it doesn't show like the others do. Kid is bilingual, so it probably doesn't matter, but still would like to know.

Still #7. I don't recall selecting language dominance, but I don't have the best memory either...so if I did it's English.

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Anonymous wrote:I would be shocked if there were essentially no wait list after round 1 of the lottery for Bancroft PK3, especially since apP claims no preference. I knew IB families who never got in off the wait list last year and had lottery #s in the 30s even with the preference.

Is PP English or Spanish dominant? There are two waitlists at Bancroft now like Oyster, right?

We also added Bancroft PK3 post-lottery. English dominant. WL #8. Anyone think there's a good chance of getting a spot?

Are you still at 7/8? We added it post lottery, I think after I saw someone say that got 7, and we are listed even lower. I THiNK I clicked English, but it doesn't show like the others do. Kid is bilingual, so it probably doesn't matter, but still would like to know.