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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]a lot of these schools do open up more in grades 2-5[/quote]

OP here and is that really true? Looking at historical data, it looks like the don't tend to clear waitlists for those grades and actually it's less favorable than for K or 1st. Waitlists overall are shorter but far fewer offers as well. At least until you get to 5th when I assume a lot of schools lose students, clearing more space for kids to come in from the lottery. But 2nd through 4th look less likely, not more likely, unless we get a better lottery number (which we might! I think our number this year was pretty bad based on our results).[/quote]

They stop making offers when they run out of kids on the list.

Is this for PK3?[/quote]

No, 1st grade.

And I don't understand your comment -- it seems to back up my question that some non insignificant number of people who are on the waitlist as of results day will drop off the waitlist before count day (whether because they got an offer elsewhere or they moved or enrolled in private or whatever) which means that even if it looks like the school only went through half the waitlist, they actually made offers to everyone still on the waitlist at some point?[/quote]

Yes, that is true. But if you are trying to compare the number of offers at various schools, it's hard to do. One school might make 10 offers then run out of kids on the list and have empty seats. Another might make 10 offers but have 200 on the wait-list. Totally different situations even though the number of offers is the same.[/quote]

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