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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]do waitlist admissions also occur by region? For example if only 10 kids were admitted from an FCPS middle school, and 8 accepted, do they look for 2 more students from that particular middle school on the waitlist?[/quote]

No, when a student doesn’t accept the admissions offer the next student who is first on the waitlist gets offered a spot.[/quote]

So, the students on the wait-list are ranked? [/quote]

It’s a list, not a pile. Do you think they select people from the waitlist randomly?

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It’s a list.
But it’s not a linear list. It’s a strategic list that is adjustable based on their prioritizing equity. And they aren’t about to share the details of it with you or anyone else because it doesn’t necessarily read as “fair” in a traditional sense.
In other words, if a kid from the Centreville HS pyramid decides not to go—they may decide to take the next “in line” on the list from Centreville HS pyramid. Or, they might say “okay here’s our opportunity to admit another kid from the Justice HS pyramid.” But it’s highly unlikely that they will admit a kid from the already over-represented Langley pyramid even if he is technically “next” in line.
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This is a bit inaccurate

The local priority disappears once the 1.5% quota is reached.  After that it's a pretty linear list.  The equity factors help determine your place on the list.

So if a middle school has 600 kids and only 5 would have gotten in, they would take the next 4 from THAT middle school to meet the quota.  If 2 of those kids declined, those two spots would go to the next two kids on the list from THAT middle school.

If 10 kids got in from that middle school and 3 kids declined, they would take the next 2 from THAT middle school and 1 from the top of the wait-list

Once again, the wait-list rankings include adjustments for life experiences.[/quote]

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