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[quote=Anonymous]A waitlist can move quite a bit. Cap City isn't such an irresistible school that everyone accepts. And there's sort of a domino effect where kids who go to Cap City might get an offer elsewhere and move. Or it could be another classroom. Other charter waitlists might behave differently, depending on how popular the school is.

But that doesn't mean that a DCPS waitlist will behave the same way. First of all, you probably have a lot of IB kids and siblings (and kids who are both those things) enrolled in a desirable or okayish DCPS PK3 class. Those people are less likely to leave the school (creating a vacancy) because it's near their house and their other kid goes there. At either kind of school you'll have siblings jumping you on the list, but in DCPS a lot of the older siblings will be by-right-- they don't need any waitlist movement to enroll and to confer sibling preference on their PK3 sibling. The experience people have with charter waitlists isn't really generalizable to DCPS PK3 waitlists.

Now, that's not to say you won't get in, just that it's different.

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