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Anonymous wrote:Basis goes pretty deep into the waitlist. If thats your real #1, great. But you are not getting any of the schools you have listed from 2-6 if your number is not good enough for Basis.

Maybe that's their number 1! We are there and happy. If they don't like it, they could always try to lottery for SH or Francis or Hardy for 6th grade, but there isn't another chance to get into BASIS, so I think the list makes sense.


The Latins don't make as much sense below (you would never have a number that gets you into Latin but not basis) but I did this too, I just couldnt bring myself to leave them off.

+1. You’re just wasting spots if you have the Latins after BASIS. You’ll never get them.

Anonymous wrote:Basis goes pretty deep into the waitlist. If thats your real #1, great. But you are not getting any of the schools you have listed from 2-6 if your number is not good enough for Basis.

Great advice.

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Anonymous wrote:You’ll be able to walk into JOW almost certainly. They’re in swing space next year and typically have an under enrolled 5th grade even not in swing space. I’d put Ludlow-Taylor as your 12th pick: good school for a year; same feed. If you get nothing, add JOW post-lottery.

OP here. Leaving JOW off the list entirely is an interesting idea. Would give us another slot to play with.

The Hill schools are just really unappealing commute-wise. And Hardy and the Hardy feeders are a complete non-starter for commute reasons. It’d be two busses and about an hour.

Were you counting on JOW being in its swing space? Because if not, the commute from JOW to L-T is exactly 3 blocks and I cannot imagine a single person who would pick JOW's 5th grade over L-T's 5th grade. And they have the same MS feed. If you'd actually be OK with JOW as a break glass and have 12 options you'd prefer, sure, just eliminate them both. I would say that I would pick SH over some of the MSes you're entertaining, but SH is at best the same commute for you as LT, so if you don't want the L-T commute, you're not going to want the SH commute either.

Anonymous wrote:Lafayette is a wasted spot. According to myschool data they made 0 waitlist offers and had 0 lottery spots for 5th last year.

We were offered a spot for 5th at Lafayette the previous year (we declined)

I think your list makes a lot of sense.

If you get medium number, you'll get into BASIS right away and that seems just great, your kid can do all the orientations stuff and you'll be done with uncertainty.


If you get a poor number, you'll maybe get a late spring or summer offer from Ross or Thomson, you'll learn a lot about John Francis (not called swwfs anymore), and you'll settle in. Then in the fall, you'll get a call from Inspired Teaching, and you'll have to figure out if you want to take it. IMO Francis middle and ITDS middle have lot of similarities.