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Anonymous wrote:OP, you gotta ask yourself "Do I want a language school and if so which languages?" And "Do I want Montessori?" That will help you narrow down your list.

Steer away from Shining Stars Montessori, it's a hot mess and narrowly avoided closure. CHML is also a hot mess.

List your IB, SWS if you're into that, and then the less-competitive DCPS schools such as JOW, Miner, and Peabody. Chisholm if you're into Spanish. To fill out the end of your list with less competitive schools, consider Langley and Two Rivers (can't believe I'm saying that, used to be Langley was rock bottom and Two Rivers had 400+ kids on the waitlist).

You can use this dashboard to assess your chances as an OOB non-sibling and eliminate schools where you truly don't stand a chance. https://enrolldcps.dc.gov/node/61

Also consider schools that may be near your commute. Many people list Thomson for that reason.

The matches by preference section does not include waitlist offers. A school could be making "no preference" offers off the waitlist, but there's no way to see that directly in the data.

One decent way to approximate is to look at matches by preference for PK4. If more than a couple matches are going to IB students, it's likely that some IB students were left on the waitlist for PK3 and OOB chances for PK3 are nil.

Using this data set can also shed light on it. If the number of waitlist offers exceeds the number of waitlisted students with a preference, then you stand some chance. https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/aaron2446/viz/MSDCSeatsandWaitlistOfferData_draft/MSDCPublicDisplay

Clever.

I was actually thinking of the MySchoolDC dashboard when I made that comment. I had forgotten about the DCPS one. I've never totally understood why there are two separate dashboards with almost-but-not-quite the same data.

agree, but I'm glad they publish both because the diff in data they give you is helpful in some instances. specifically, the dcps one shows you how many applications with preferences got waitlisted. if there's a WL for kids with preferences, then you know you have zero shot without any preferences.