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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For the record, chesterbrook does not recruit. [/quote]

DD had a friend move to great falls and start swimming for chesterbrook before the house was even completed. They lived on the other side of the county at the time [/quote]

Chesterbrook doesn't keep a waitlist from year to year- they open up the 'waitlist' on a certain day, and you apply that day- if you aren't offered anything that summer you have to reapply the next year.  There is nothing nefarious about a new family who knows they are moving to the area applying for membership and starting swimming while the house was under construction.
The no waitlist has its advantages- I am on the board at a different pool that has a fairly lengthy waitlist- managing the waitlist is a pain, and we frequently get people who are no longer interested once they finally come off the waitlist- or people applying to the waitlist who really don't want to join the pool, but they have heard they need to 'get on the list.'
On the other hand- it does lead to a more opaque process about who is getting in, and when they applied.
https://chesterbrookclub.com/membership/[/quote]

This is a pretty clever way for the club to operate. They keep two waitlists essentially - one primary one that gets you a membership and annual secondary ones that feed the primary. They open up the secondary waitlist on a certain day and then it’s first come first serve to get a summer membership. Once you are offered a summer membership, you have to accept or you are taken off the primary waitlist and can’t reapply for a year. Decline twice and you are blackballed forever. The summer membership is priced higher than annual dues for regular members, so they are paying more for 1/3 of the access. There is a max of 110 people allowed on the waiting list and if half are offered summer membership, that’s an extra 175k from just 55 families. This lets the club attract families who need to get into a pool asap and don’t mind paying higher dues for just the summer. Their primary waitlist is populated with families who have already put money into summer dues, so are not as likely to decline a membership. In fact, they can just string those families on ad infinitum because they are grandfathered into the summer membership.

This system definitely allows families to get in faster since it’s an annual secondary waitlist, but I don’t think that was the intention. The intention was to provide a secondary stream of income from non members and create demand for the memberships. By pricing the summer higher, they create the perception (whether true or not) that the summer is worth more than the rest of the year.

I’m not in the area and we have actually been on the waitlist for a few years to get OUT of a club membership in the tristate area. Now I really pay attention to club bylaws. [/quote]

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