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I have an (unproven) hypothesis that the YY waitlist will be the slowest moving, because it is the school with the most pre-selection. Curious what you all think.

For prek3/4 I have spoken with a number of families who applied to 10 schools in the common lottery, plus all the schools outside of the common lottery, except for YY.

Two main reasons were cited by these families:

1) zero interest in child learning chinese, in some cases because they are already learning another language and don't want to confuse them. Would prefer to stay in private daycare or SAH etc instead of attending YY

2) lukewarm interest in chinese and vaguely aware that it's a school with a great reputation, but time stamp lottery process too much of a hassle if you are only lukewarm on YY (not passionate about kid learning chinese)

For this reason I think the YY waitlist should have a higher percentage of families who really want to go to YY, in comparison with other waitlists, especially compared with the other schools outside of the common lottery process.

What do you think?

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I think it will be the slowest moving of the non-common-lottery schools, especially since they order it by time stamp. But the popular schools in the common lottery will probably have less movement, since much movement is already built into the algorithm.[/quote]

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