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This is very promising, but no one has actually taken the plunge yet. This is based on non-binding commitments. I think we won't really know until school starts.[/quote]

And the principal is put in the position of trying to plan enrollment based on these non-binding commitments.

I saw Principal Pride speak recently, and she said the school was slightly underenrolled this year, which resulted in a loss of funding. In DC, money follows students. Everyone on the waitlist was admitted this year, and they called everyone who didn't accept twice.

Think about the dilemma the principal faces: she doesn't want under-enrollment, and she doesn't want overcrowding either. The number of in-boundary kids is unpredictable, and once spots are offered in the lottery they can't be rescinded. So the cautious strategy is to offer a small number of slots in the lottery, and then take off of the waitlist once the number of in-boundary kids is known.

The problem they ran into this year was that the waitlist didn't run deep enough. My bet is that many of the kids on the Hardy waitlist also applied to Basis and Latin, which offered seats which didn't exist a couple of years ago. With the charters joining the unified lottery this year I expect waitlists to be shorter everywhere, and move less.[/quote]

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