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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For 9th grade:

Lottery Seats - 220
Applications on Result Day - 481
Matches on Results Day - 185
Waitlist Length on Results day - 5

New DCPS parent of middle schooler in bounds for Macarthur. Trying to figure out how the lottery systems works.

1. How did the school offer 220 lottery seats for 9th grade, if the school is a neighborhood school, and not a 100% lottery-based? And official max capacity for the student body is 800 students?
2. If they received 481 applications, and accepted 185 students, why is waitlist only 5 students?[/quote]

481 students put MacArthur on their list but many matched with a school they ranked higher.

To me, it looks like MacArthur was able to match everyone who applied who didn't match with a school they ranked higher - 185. The 5 on the waitlist were likely post-lottery applicants, who weren't matched on match day but will likely be soon.

I think MacArthur offered so many lottery seats upfront to avoid scrambling to fill seats later in the summer. (You can see last year they had made 165 waitlist offers by June, 307 by August.) It's unlikely that all 185 matches will attend in the fall; some initially matched will get off waitlists elsewhere or opt to do private, move, etc. But this way most of the school's admin work is done upfront.[/quote]

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