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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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]

This is the answer. They assume half the kids offered lottery seats won't accept them. It will be interesting to see whether that happens - I think they will potentially get more kids who accept than expected. It's a lot easier to say yes to a 9th grade lottery spot in May than in early August (when you've probably already scrambled to make other plans).[/quote]

Yes. DCPS enrollment management involves formula forecasting based on recent years experience for each school. With a new school like MacArthur, it's not an exact science. But they do know how many Hardy kids have historically gone to Walls and other selectives, how many have left the public data set by going to private high schools, and things like that.

They likely offered a lot of seats because they didn't want to turn anyone away, and figured the numbers would come down or they would hire more teachers if they had to.

The 5 waitlisted are probably because they matched somewhere they ranked higher but have a sibling at MacArthur.[/quote]

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