Waitlist shuffle question

[Anonymous]

Right now we are 0 for 12 on our PS3 applications, but we have about 8 waitlist numbers under 30. How will this work during the summer? Enroll as we (hopefully) get in, and disenroll as we get into preferred?

Our list is in true preferential order, as they were supposed to be, so if we get into 12, we accept.

Two weeks later, we get off the waitlist at 11, we disenroll at 12, and reenroll at 11?

And so on and so forth?

(Realizing this is all just hopeful, but that my waitlist numbers are better than many)

[Anonymous]

I assume so. You don't want to not enroll in a school you get into, just because you have hopes of coming off the waitlist at the next one. If it doesn't happen, then you would be screwed. I am sure the schools understand this. Plus you probably won't have to enroll in all 12 schools even if you come off every waitlist. It would probably jump around. Like you might get offered your 12th choice, then your 5th, so you obviously wouldn't have to bother with coming off the waitlist in schools 6-11.

[Anonymous]

So I was chatting with someone yesterday who informed me that if you enroll you are removed from the other waitlists. Anyone know that to be the case? I questioned her but she seemed sure that's how it works.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So I was chatting with someone yesterday who informed me that if you enroll you are removed from the other waitlists. Anyone know that to be the case? I questioned her but she seemed sure that's how it works.

That is 100 percent NOT true. You will stay on the waitlists throughout.

[Anonymous]

No. Not the case. You can't enroll in more than one place at a time but you'll stay on wait lists.

[Anonymous]

If you enroll, I believe you are drop from all the waitlists below. OP here, say I get into by #6, I then come off the waitlists for 7-12.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you enroll, I believe you are drop from all the waitlists below. OP here, say I get into by #6, I then come off the waitlists for 7-12.

Once the waitlists go to the schools, they are no longer managed by Central Office. I don't see how you would come off waitlists below unless every school is checking every student's ranking of schools, and then checking to see if he or she is enrolled at a school ranked higher, before calling families on the waitlist.

In other words, that's never going to happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you enroll, I believe you are drop from all the waitlists below. OP here, say I get into by #6, I then come off the waitlists for 7-12.

Once the waitlists go to the schools, they are no longer managed by Central Office. I don't see how you would come off waitlists below unless every school is checking every student's ranking of schools, and then checking to see if he or she is enrolled at a school ranked higher, before calling families on the waitlist.

In other words, that's never going to happen.

I agree with this. There would be no way to verify.

[Anonymous]

Yes, OP, that's exactly how it works.