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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you in bounds for any of the schools?  Also depends on your number.[/quote]

OP here: no, we're nearby but out of bounds (OOB) for all... so the situation is - for example - my kid's results day rank was #15 at one of the schools. That school made 30+ PK4 WL offers by Oct. 1 last year. (Multiply that by 6 schools with similar numbers. The exact number of offers varies based on year, and school, but nearly all of the schools on our list have made more offers in multiple recent years than our results day WL rank at that school.)

After months of the rank number these schools going up and down as people move into and out of the district, pull their names from the wait list, etc, most of them have made fewer than half a dozen offers as of June 1 (still the most recent data available.) I'm guessing most of the offer action takes place as the actual first day of school gets closer? But maybe I'm just as deluded about our chances here as people who play the ACTUAL lottery are about those odds of success....

Maybe I need tough love! Or maybe not! I'm just not sure I can take another month - let alone two - of this without some sense from savvier and more experienced parents of whether an offer is a thing that is fairly likely (though not guaranteed) to happen, or fairly unlikely (though not impossible)...So I'm venting here. Thanks for humoring me.

(Yes, we have a "safety school." We could handle another year there, maybe two max. Definitely not a long-term fix)[/quote]

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