Anonymous
Post 02/08/2025 08:13     Subject: APS Lottery 2/7
Anonymous wrote:We are #10 on ATS. Likelihood of getting a spot between now and school starting?

Decent. Some people enter all the lotteries and then drop the ones they don’t really want. Plus there will be movement with the federal job situation and RTO
Anonymous
Post 02/08/2025 07:58     Subject: APS Lottery 2/7
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I got the ATS result about an hour ago... now to figure out whether to take it or not.

Outside of DCUM where else is a good spot to read reviews/gather opinions from others who have gone through the option schools?


If you got into ATS, take it. If you don’t like it, you can always transfer back to your neighborhood school.


We all know she’s going to take it. She just wants to brag and get attention for a non achievement.


You can’t be serious in thinking this? We got a spot by chance and now we have two weeks to decide and want more details on where I will send my kid to school - how in any way is that bragging?
Anonymous
Post 02/08/2025 07:35     Subject: APS Lottery 2/7
We are #10 on ATS. Likelihood of getting a spot between now and school starting?
Anonymous
Post 02/08/2025 07:24     Subject: APS Lottery 2/7
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I got the ATS result about an hour ago... now to figure out whether to take it or not.

Outside of DCUM where else is a good spot to read reviews/gather opinions from others who have gone through the option schools?


If you got into ATS, take it. If you don’t like it, you can always transfer back to your neighborhood school.


Agreed. ATS isn’t as good as private school (they still have big class sizes, they still use APS’s “meh” curriculum), but it’s better than many of the neighborhood schools.

That said, if you’re in one of the affluent NA schools, ATS may be a downgrade.


This and the people I know who have kids there who aren’t poor have a hard time making class friends.


It’s them. Not the school. My children both had groups of close friends.
Anonymous
Post 02/08/2025 07:21     Subject: APS Lottery 2/7
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I got the ATS result about an hour ago... now to figure out whether to take it or not.

Outside of DCUM where else is a good spot to read reviews/gather opinions from others who have gone through the option schools?


If you got into ATS, take it. If you don’t like it, you can always transfer back to your neighborhood school.


We all know she’s going to take it. She just wants to brag and get attention for a non achievement.
Anonymous
Post 02/07/2025 23:01     Subject: APS Lottery 2/7
Anonymous wrote:For ATS, how much movement is there on the waitlist? Does a kid listed 100-ish have a chance of getting a spot?


No.
Anonymous
Post 02/07/2025 22:48     Subject: APS Lottery 2/7
For ATS, how much movement is there on the waitlist? Does a kid listed 100-ish have a chance of getting a spot?
Anonymous
Post 02/07/2025 22:45     Subject: APS Lottery 2/7
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:If we are #10 on the waitlist for HB, does that mean tenth overall, or tenth from the allotted three spots for our elementary?


10th from your school almost zero chance.


make it zero
Anonymous
Post 02/07/2025 22:44     Subject: APS Lottery 2/7
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:As a twin parent I will confirm that twins have results that are right next to each other in the lottery (so if one twin is #2 the other twin is #3). if there are five sets of twin in a middle school maybe that could account for the difference the PP saw?


Even if they were right next to each other, that wouldn't explain a gap between the number of drawings and waitlisted numbers - unless the drawing counts them as one unit and the waitlisted numbers count them as two. But that seems incredibly difficult to manage.


I believe that is what happens. If one twin gets in via the lottery, they both get in.
Anonymous
Post 02/07/2025 21:40     Subject: APS Lottery 2/7
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I got the ATS result about an hour ago... now to figure out whether to take it or not.

Outside of DCUM where else is a good spot to read reviews/gather opinions from others who have gone through the option schools?


If you got into ATS, take it. If you don’t like it, you can always transfer back to your neighborhood school.


Agreed. ATS isn’t as good as private school (they still have big class sizes, they still use APS’s “meh” curriculum), but it’s better than many of the neighborhood schools.

That said, if you’re in one of the affluent NA schools, ATS may be a downgrade.


This and the people I know who have kids there who aren’t poor have a hard time making class friends.


Why?
Anonymous
Post 02/07/2025 21:39     Subject: APS Lottery 2/7
How much movement is there on WL IB waitlist?

I thought we added 600 seats so WL could accept as many transfers as needed?
Anonymous
Post 02/07/2025 21:24     Subject: APS Lottery 2/7
Anonymous wrote:If we are #10 on the waitlist for HB, does that mean tenth overall, or tenth from the allotted three spots for our elementary?


10th from your school almost zero chance.
Anonymous
Post 02/07/2025 21:23     Subject: APS Lottery 2/7
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I got the ATS result about an hour ago... now to figure out whether to take it or not.

Outside of DCUM where else is a good spot to read reviews/gather opinions from others who have gone through the option schools?


If you got into ATS, take it. If you don’t like it, you can always transfer back to your neighborhood school.


Agreed. ATS isn’t as good as private school (they still have big class sizes, they still use APS’s “meh” curriculum), but it’s better than many of the neighborhood schools.

That said, if you’re in one of the affluent NA schools, ATS may be a downgrade.


This and the people I know who have kids there who aren’t poor have a hard time making class friends.
Anonymous
Post 02/07/2025 21:22     Subject: APS Lottery 2/7
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:So, I watched the results live for HB and it showed the number of waitlisted students - let's say it was 15 on the zoom call. When I received our lottery results, we are number 19 on the waitlist. How is this possible when the zoom clearly showed only up to 15 waitlisted? Where did the extra students come from? Did APS screw this up like everything else they do?


I think twins count as one for the drawing. But that would explain more than a 1-2 seat difference.

Are you sure you were watching the correct draw?


Yep, absolutely the correct draw, without question. The screen showed X number of waitlisted students and the host scrolled all the way to the bottom, showing no additional waitlisted students and no additional pages of results. And our waitlisted number is X+4
Anonymous
Post 02/07/2025 21:21     Subject: APS Lottery 2/7
Anonymous wrote:As a twin parent I will confirm that twins have results that are right next to each other in the lottery (so if one twin is #2 the other twin is #3). if there are five sets of twin in a middle school maybe that could account for the difference the PP saw?


Even if they were right next to each other, that wouldn't explain a gap between the number of drawings and waitlisted numbers - unless the drawing counts them as one unit and the waitlisted numbers count them as two. But that seems incredibly difficult to manage.