Anonymous wrote:If it makes anyone feel better, I applied to Yu Ying for my three year old, but we'll go there only if we don't get in anywhere else. I don't have any interest in him learning Chinese and would rather not have my son in a language immersion school of any type. But we would definitely go there over at least one of my in-boundary options (Raymond). Any of my other 11 schools I would probably prefer over Yu Ying. I hear it's a great school, but I think just not for us.

It would be total injustice if you got a spot at YY. I hope you get into one of the 11 you want and only people who really want Chinese get into YY. I know random means it may not work out that way, but that would be best for all who get spots.

It was announced as a possibility so yes there were people in line for PreK 3. The very 1st person in line wanted PreK 3.

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Anonymous wrote:If it makes anyone feel better, I applied to Yu Ying for my three year old, but we'll go there only if we don't get in anywhere else. I don't have any interest in him learning Chinese and would rather not have my son in a language immersion school of any type. But we would definitely go there over at least one of my in-boundary options (Raymond). Any of my other 11 schools I would probably prefer over Yu Ying. I hear it's a great school, but I think just not for us.

Not that I can't see someone feeling this way, but it's pretty clear you are making this post up if you put YY down as one of your 12 lottery choices... glad you will not be taking up a spot there if you have zero interest in being there.

You would think if someone is going to makeup a scenario, they would make is vaguely plausible. Dumb

I read it as her having put down 11 preferable-to-YY schools PLUS Raymond on her common application, for a total of 12.

YY isn't in the common lottery - it's not a waste of 12.

Anonymous wrote:If it makes anyone feel better, I applied to Yu Ying for my three year old, but we'll go there only if we don't get in anywhere else. I don't have any interest in him learning Chinese and would rather not have my son in a language immersion school of any type. But we would definitely go there over at least one of my in-boundary options (Raymond). Any of my other 11 schools I would probably prefer over Yu Ying. I hear it's a great school, but I think just not for us.

Just interested, what schools did you pick?

Did folks camp out for PK3 because it wasn't announced as a possibility until much later? Did they still sign in at 8:00 just in case?

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Anonymous wrote:If it makes anyone feel better, I applied to Yu Ying for my three year old, but we'll go there only if we don't get in anywhere else. I don't have any interest in him learning Chinese and would rather not have my son in a language immersion school of any type. But we would definitely go there over at least one of my in-boundary options (Raymond). Any of my other 11 schools I would probably prefer over Yu Ying. I hear it's a great school, but I think just not for us.

Not that I can't see someone feeling this way, but it's pretty clear you are making this post up if you put YY down as one of your 12 lottery choices... glad you will not be taking up a spot there if you have zero interest in being there.

You would think if someone is going to makeup a scenario, they would make is vaguely plausible. Dumb

I read it as her having put down 11 preferable-to-YY schools PLUS Raymond on her common application, for a total of 12.

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Anonymous wrote:If it makes anyone feel better, I applied to Yu Ying for my three year old, but we'll go there only if we don't get in anywhere else. I don't have any interest in him learning Chinese and would rather not have my son in a language immersion school of any type. But we would definitely go there over at least one of my in-boundary options (Raymond). Any of my other 11 schools I would probably prefer over Yu Ying. I hear it's a great school, but I think just not for us.

Not that I can't see someone feeling this way, but it's pretty clear you are making this post up if you put YY down as one of your 12 lottery choices... glad you will not be taking up a spot there if you have zero interest in being there.

You would think if someone is going to makeup a scenario, they would make is vaguely plausible. Dumb

Anonymous wrote:If it makes anyone feel better, I applied to Yu Ying for my three year old, but we'll go there only if we don't get in anywhere else. I don't have any interest in him learning Chinese and would rather not have my son in a language immersion school of any type. But we would definitely go there over at least one of my in-boundary options (Raymond). Any of my other 11 schools I would probably prefer over Yu Ying. I hear it's a great school, but I think just not for us.

Not that I can't see someone feeling this way, but it's pretty clear you are making this post up if you put YY down as one of your 12 lottery choices... glad you will not be taking up a spot there if you have zero interest in being there.

If it makes anyone feel better, I applied to Yu Ying for my three year old, but we'll go there only if we don't get in anywhere else. I don't have any interest in him learning Chinese and would rather not have my son in a language immersion school of any type. But we would definitely go there over at least one of my in-boundary options (Raymond). Any of my other 11 schools I would probably prefer over Yu Ying. I hear it's a great school, but I think just not for us.

Yes ^^, both English dominant for sure.

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Anonymous wrote:Actually, there are a surprising number of families at YY who speak another language at home--mostly French, a few Spanish, and several others. One Francophone mom I know says that she values the sheer internationalism of YY.

I think there are more parents who speak French than Mandarin actually. DH and I both speak French although we don't speak it at home. We're hoping that DC learns French as a third language at DCI.

We're similar: one parent speaks French, the other speaks decent Spanish. But we were 100% focused on Chinese. We are thrilled to be there, and we have zero connection to China or Chinese culture beyond our personal relationships with friends and co-workers. But we're looking forward to learning more as our kid (and hopefully later kidS) go on this great journey. And I'm hoping the kids choose French at DCI, but since they didn't have a choice about Mandarin (we chose it for them obviously), I'm letting them choose the 2nd target language when it's time.

So, both parents english dominant with a second language each (french, spanish)? just curious.

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Anonymous wrote:Actually, there are a surprising number of families at YY who speak another language at home--mostly French, a few Spanish, and several others. One Francophone mom I know says that she values the sheer internationalism of YY.

I think there are more parents who speak French than Mandarin actually. DH and I both speak French although we don't speak it at home. We're hoping that DC learns French as a third language at DCI.

We're similar: one parent speaks French, the other speaks decent Spanish. But we were 100% focused on Chinese. We are thrilled to be there, and we have zero connection to China or Chinese culture beyond our personal relationships with friends and co-workers. But we're looking forward to learning more as our kid (and hopefully later kidS) go on this great journey. And I'm hoping the kids choose French at DCI, but since they didn't have a choice about Mandarin (we chose it for them obviously), I'm letting them choose the 2nd target language when it's time.

No, you can't. Because once they fill up the open slots in the random lottery, everyone else gets on the waitlist according to their time stamp of their application. They won't be trying to figure out the timestamp order of all the remaining applicant's on site.

You won't know your spot on the waitlist until they publish the waitlist, but they're good about publishing it so it shouldn't be too too long. They probably already have it, but will just have to make adjustments to the siblings of newly admitted students (who, like everywhere else, go to the top of the waitlist if there wasn't a slot available when the sib got in), and adjust for the admitted students.

Does anyone know if you can find out your wait list number by going to the lottery draw on Thursday?

Anonymous wrote:Actually, there are a surprising number of families at YY who speak another language at home--mostly French, a few Spanish, and several others. One Francophone mom I know says that she values the sheer internationalism of YY.

I think there are more parents who speak French than Mandarin actually. DH and I both speak French although we don't speak it at home. We're hoping that DC learns French as a third language at DCI.