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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you all sure that s/he moves to the bottom of sibling enrolled, and not in that category based on lottery number?[/quote]

I think the PPs are wrong and you end up placed based on your initial lottery number w/in your new pref category (although w/ #1 on the WL being the best you can do). When we move IB to a new school post lottery for PK4, we jumped from 70+ to 1 on the WL and jumped other IB families. We got in and some IB families didn’t, so we definitely did not go to the bottom of the new preference category. [/quote]

This is correct.  Your waitlisted kid's master number will determine where in the "sibling enrolled" waitlist he is- so yes, the faster you get your older kid enrolled the better as otherwise someone already in the"sibling enrolled" could get an offer if a spot opens up before you enroll your older kids and you otherwise would have jumped ahead.  [/quote]

This is really depressing to me, because it means my waitlisted sibling enrolled who probably got a bad draw could get bumped back by a newly enrolled sibling, even though we have already been at the school for years.  I'd hope that longevity at the school would matter. [/quote]

Longevity at school is not a lottery preference category.  I get your disappointment but not sure it should matter- people move to the city all the time and have to get their kids in; or maybe someone last year had an awful number and finally got lucky with the lottery.  Last year my DD got down to #1 on the waitlist for our in bounds for PK3 and then this year got an awful number and is towards the end of the WL for in bounds for PK4- it would have been nice to have gotten consideration for ranking my in bounds #1 and almost getting in but I didn't and this is similar as being at a school longer term and not getting pereference.  Someone who wants it more or who has wanted it longer doesn't have the ability to jump the list[/quote]

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