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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There were 20 slots and 20 sibling applicants this year. K doubles in size - I would try again![/quote]

They won't fill the PK with all priority applicants, but rather use about half for new families and half for priority (ie siblings, alumni etc)

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If 20 siblings applied, the siblings on the waitlist could easily be 10 kids deep. That said, if they try and balance priority applicants...that doesn't mean they will pull from the siblings on the waitlist first. If they are trying to balance priority applicants, wouldn't they be more likely to take a new family if another new family declined the offer?[/quote]

This seems valid, although I don't think WL movement goes one-to-one with declines at any of the private schools. I would assume (as a non-expert in this) that schools know they get a higher yield from siblings than unhooked and have made offers accordingly. So to fill a class of 20 with half siblings, they probably only need to offer admission to 10 siblings, whereas they might need to offer to 12 or 15 non-siblings. This is a general comment, not specific to Sidwell. Then again, if more unhooked declined than expected and they would be left with 9 non-siblings, it seems logical they'd go to another unhooked than another sibling from the WL.[/quote]

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