Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I saw a lot of numbers go up on my list (like 4 out of the 10 schools on my list pushed me up farther 2-3 spots) the first morning of the lottery results (Friday, before noon) and it made ZERO sense. People kept saying "because of siblings!" but that would mean that people have already accepted schools that they wanted, which, I thought required enrollment. I can NOT believe that people were enrolling at 10am on Friday already, and for the lottery numbers to start moving. For example, on the draw at midnight, I was 31 on a list, but by 10am, I was 33. So two people had already enrolled in a school and had siblings push me back? Doubtful. Manual entry makes more sense, but then that screams of mismanagement/error since a lot of people reported seeing higher numbers moving Friday morning

I checked our lottery results pretty much as soon as they were posted on the night of March 31, and it listed our position at one school as 66 on the WL. We got the lottery results letter in the mail from MSDC this past weekend and it listed our position at that particular school as 65. I mean, its one slot, and we're not getting in either way, but what happened there? Sometime between when the lottery was run and when the results were posted online we went up a spot -- but it was not even possible for a family to accept in that period of time.

Anonymous wrote:I saw a lot of numbers go up on my list (like 4 out of the 10 schools on my list pushed me up farther 2-3 spots) the first morning of the lottery results (Friday, before noon) and it made ZERO sense. People kept saying "because of siblings!" but that would mean that people have already accepted schools that they wanted, which, I thought required enrollment. I can NOT believe that people were enrolling at 10am on Friday already, and for the lottery numbers to start moving. For example, on the draw at midnight, I was 31 on a list, but by 10am, I was 33. So two people had already enrolled in a school and had siblings push me back? Doubtful. Manual entry makes more sense, but then that screams of mismanagement/error since a lot of people reported seeing higher numbers moving Friday morning

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Child is incoming 9th grade and tested, interviewed for school without walls high school. I called and myschooldc could not figure it out...

OP, stay on top of this one and be a squeaky wheel. Sounds to me like a couple of applicants got added manually by someone (at MSDC or SWW) probably because something got screwed up (applicant has proof that they applied but their child didn't show up in the lottery results, etc.) and to placate those families and remedy the mistake they bumped them to the top of the waitlist. If there was a mistake (and I was on the receiving end) I'd also be demanding satisfaction, so OP, you need to do the same.

Anonymous wrote:I saw a lot of numbers go up on my list (like 4 out of the 10 schools on my list pushed me up farther 2-3 spots) the first morning of the lottery results (Friday, before noon) and it made ZERO sense. People kept saying "because of siblings!" but that would mean that people have already accepted schools that they wanted, which, I thought required enrollment. I can NOT believe that people were enrolling at 10am on Friday already, and for the lottery numbers to start moving. For example, on the draw at midnight, I was 31 on a list, but by 10am, I was 33. So two people had already enrolled in a school and had siblings push me back? Doubtful. Manual entry makes more sense, but then that screams of mismanagement/error since a lot of people reported seeing higher numbers moving Friday morning

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Child is incoming 9th grade and tested, interviewed for school without walls high school. I called and myschooldc could not figure it out...

OP, stay on top of this one and be a squeaky wheel. Sounds to me like a couple of applicants got added manually by someone (at MSDC or SWW) probably because something got screwed up (applicant has proof that they applied but their child didn't show up in the lottery results, etc.) and to placate those families and remedy the mistake they bumped them to the top of the waitlist. If there was a mistake (and I was on the receiving end) I'd also be demanding satisfaction, so OP, you need to do the same.