Report which of your waitlists have moved significantly this fall

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Anonymous wrote:We are on waitlists for 5th and 6th for Latin main, Latin cooper and other schools (low numbers). I find it interesting that Latin main has moved a lot more than cooper.

It's particularly interesting, because it appears that's a different story than what is showing up in the data. I'm not suggesting you're wrong (could certainly be the case of people getting offers in Sept/removing themselves/offers not yet counted/etc) just that it's a different view than you get from these numbers (from over the summer).

https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/aaron2446/viz/MSDCSeatsandWaitlistOfferData_draft/MSDCPublicDisplay

If you drill down and look at multiple years for 6th at cooper, you can see what I mean. This year is different for some reason.

I completely agree, the 6th grade WL offers from Cooper (at least through Aug) have declined absurdly this year. Understanding this doesn't capture offers made in September, Cooper 6th grade has made only a single WL offer this year (compared to 19 by this time last year, and 74 the year before that - and in each case, more by the time final totals were tallied). That's a huge jump (and seems likely related, at least in part, to the confirmation of the new building). It doesn't seem a huge discrepancy though as compared to 6th grade at 2nd street. This year 2nd Street has (as of August) made 0 WL offers. This seems relatively consistent with the last several years, where (again, only as of August) they had made 0 offers, 0 offers, 2 offers, 2 offers, 2 offers, 3 offers, 1 offer, and 6 offers (working backwards over the last 8 year).

Of course, I'm only looking at the public data, and that's out of date. So if you're seeing a different story in your WL movement, it will be interesting to see the final numbers. I can definitely see a Brookland family (for example) preferring the Kirov building over the 2nd street building and ranking it higher.

I think what we're seeing is few offers made because there simply isn't room in the current temporary building where Cooper is, so they can't let any class get over-large. And the transition from being a startup with a lower offer acceptance rate, to being a more established school where offers are accepted so they don't need to make as many offers.

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Cooper: In first year they were accepting a full class of 6th graders. Second year, still some extra spots, probably. This year not as much space, also I'm guessing more kids who are siblings of the current 8th graders, who didn't make it in last year? I don't know if there are numbers to back it up.

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Anonymous wrote:Truth for 6th has dropped nearly 30 spots in one week. Seems like they're having a hard time filling up... not a good sign for a school that just expanded!

They offered so few 6th grade seats in the initial lottery - I wonder if that strategy was a mistake they are trying to fix.