Anonymous wrote:No- Waitlisted kids do not go thru lottery.

If a accepted kid from Your DC school drops or goes to TJ - then that seat will be available for grabs among kids from that school - ranking based on the score is used to give that seat.

Historically 49-50% of waitlisted get into AOL. Acceptance may happen from March 21st (this year) till a day before the school start.

Anonymous wrote:Waitlist kids will also go through the lottery again?

Typo in earlier message . I meant “40- 50%”

No- Waitlisted kids do not go thru lottery.

If a accepted kid from Your DC school drops or goes to TJ - then that seat will be available for grabs among kids from that school - ranking based on the score is used to give that seat.

Historically 49-50% of waitlisted get into AOL. Acceptance may happen from March 21st (this year) till a day before the school start.

Anonymous wrote:Waitlist kids will also go through the lottery again?

Waitlist kids will also go through the lottery again?

Anonymous wrote:It has been confirmed Prep schools and online document that the basic criteria is :

All the students who pass the test /score more qualifying marks are placed in a lottery pool.

Whoever gets picked in the lottery are offered admission and other are placed on Waitlist.

True. One of those prep center had a call today and this was discussed. yes, you are correct there is a lottery but that lottery is for folks who pass the test. Offers are sent to folks who are picked in lottery and others passing folks are waitlisted.

It has been confirmed Prep schools and online document that the basic criteria is :

All the students who pass the test /score more qualifying marks are placed in a lottery pool.

Whoever gets picked in the lottery are offered admission and other are placed on Waitlist.

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Anonymous wrote:DD was not offered admission to AET but waitlisted for AOS

Does it mean there is a separate score cut off or ranking list for those who get admitted in one or waitlisted in both versus someone rejected in one but waitlisted in another? Or is it all lottery-based where they just pull all names in one basket and randomly it is decided who and how?

Can anyone answer the above question if they know or heard from other parents?

At my school some kids were accepted to both AET and AOS. The deadline to accept any one of the two is 21’st. So waitlist will move on this Thursday ?

Anonymous wrote:Some of the good students are not even getting into waitlist

At my school it appears the top students were accepted to at least one of the two. Not sure how many spots are allotted.

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Anonymous wrote:Would be nice if AOS posts something to clear any confusion if there is a lottery in place for the kids who did well in the exam

It is tough for lot of kids who are naturally smart and interested kids receiving rejection emails. My DD is a class topper and was scoring almost perfect score in the practice tests and was equally confident for the exam.

She is in dilemma now as to what could have gone wrong. According to her - AOS website has a selection criteria listed for both AOS and AET that does not specify lottery being used.

Yes, in the internal LCPS documents I found and posted lottery is used after they decide the cutoff for scores. If you get above the cutoff, you get entered into the lottery. If you are selected, you're accepted, all others waitlisted. If you don't make the cutoff, you're rejected.

I think this document is a proposal. There was a discussion of changes at the Aug 2020 school board meeting. This might be available online, but I remember it as being 8 hours, so maybe only part of it is online. There was discussion of in-person schooling for special ed and other topics before AOS.
After the changes were approved, they then voted to form a committee for implementation. I think it is not a lottery, and no racial balancing as listed in that document.
Also, in the school board meeting someone said the proposal being voted on was prepared last minute.

Some of the good students are not even getting into waitlist

Anonymous wrote:AOL people should confirm it if there is Lottery. Kids who are not getting admitted wont lose confidence

Fairly certain this has been confirmed after the remodel of the evaluation process in 2020. Students complete both the STEM and Writing prompt, which are scored and then those with a passing score are entered in the lottery and whoever is randomly picked gets the admission, while the remaining are waitlisted. Students who do not receive any offer did not pass the test and were not entered in the lottery.

AOL people should confirm it if there is Lottery. Kids who are not getting admitted wont lose confidence

Anonymous wrote:DD was not offered admission to AET but waitlisted for AOS

Does it mean there is a separate score cut off or ranking list for those who get admitted in one or waitlisted in both versus someone rejected in one but waitlisted in another? Or is it all lottery-based where they just pull all names in one basket and randomly it is decided who and how?

What is the total count of students selected by this exam for AET ?

Anonymous wrote:DD got waitlisted for AET..

Her first choice is Engineering and second is Entrepreneurship.

Will above preferences make any impact in getting her off the waitlist ?

Not necessarily. All applicants who are in the initial pool are already ranked by the selection panel. That ranking determines who gets the next available offer.