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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Having people pay a not-insignificant waitlist fee serves the legitimate purpose of disuading them from just signing up to every waitlist in town, instead of the ones they are really interested in, causing a huge administrative burden on the people managing those waitlists. Charging more than once, or yearly, is just wrong.[/quote]

This was definitely true 25 years ago when I worked at a center. But today wailist sign up, offers and registrations can all be automated with no need for manual intervention.  [/quote]

If you have thousands of people on a waitlist, because it's free to sign up, you still have to go down the list one by one and offer the spot to dozens of people who are not interested in it and signed up just to be on the safe side. It's not a workable system.[/quote]

Children in the Shoe tells prospective parents to call once a month to express their continued interest.  They have a spreadsheet to track calls.  No waitlist fee, no massive list of parents no longer interested.

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That is exactly how I got an infant spot as a new family at an excellent center downtown.  The center supposedly had an 18 month waiting list.  I called the center every couple of months or so, to let them know that I was still pregnant and that they were still my top choice center.  BAM!  Got a spot with no trouble.

Think about it.  Daycare owners have an incentive to fill up their centers with families who seem like they are sane and will pay on time.  By the time I got my spot, the owners already knew me.

Unless it is a federal center, that's how it works. lol[/quote]

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