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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]HGC  waitlists are completely different from MS or HS.  For MS and HS they read kids' files again. For HGC they do not read files again at all. It is simply lottery.
So it absolutely does not matter how many writing samples or awards you will submit later. Everyone on waitlist have exactly the same probability to be chosen.

Also with MS and definetely HS, when one kid is accepted to several program, some seats free up and waitlisted kids get accepted.
With HGC this is not the case. Kids can go to only one HGC, as a result  very few seats are available if any once initial acceptance is completed.

I do not know how different schools operate.
I know for a fact that 3-4 year ago Cold Spring NEVER took any kid after 4th grade started. Even when several kids moved between 4th and 5th grade to different states no kids were added to classes. Actually at that time principal mentioned  at the meeting that they will not take kids once program will start.[/quote]

This makes sense to me.  It would be almost impossible for kids to catch up to accelerated instruction halfway through the first year, much less the second.  With classes of 27/28, teachers wouldn't have time to give a late-entry child the support he or she would need.[/quote]

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