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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But wouldn't it increase your ability to know whether to decline the spot you got or to drop off your higher ranked school's waitlist if you could see the data now?   If the point is to move the waitlists along, the sooner we can see the information the better.  Making each parent call each school is a return to the dark ages.   [/quote]

+1 It is absurd that they have gone lightyears backwards in terms of transparency with this year's lottery. Every other year, DCPS has made all the lottery data available so that you could look for tracking numbers across all schools and determine where else a kid in front of yours on a waitlist is waitlisted. Then you can make educated guesses about which children might jump if they get the call from another school. Plus, it's useful to know if the kids in front of yours on the waitlist have any sort of preference that might indicate a greater likelihood that they'd take a spot if offered. So many reasons why the data is necessary, including inspiring faith in the lottery results themselves. If no data is offered, then the conspiracy theories start...[/quote]

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