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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow, 12 non-feeder offers for Spanish at DCI. [/quote]

Could that also be showing the waitlisted students of one feeder using the excess seats allocated to another feeder?[/quote]

Actually I checked the DCI board meeting minutes for the May 15 meeting and it says "11 member school applicants on a waitlist on Results Day were offered a seat at DCI." So there's one unexplained I guess.

Looking at DCI's 6th grade lottery data, seems like the waitlists for Spanish were 0 kids from DCB, 11 from Stokes Brookland, 0 from Stokes EE, 0 from LAMB, and 0 from Calle Ocho but 2 from Cook. 2 offers were made to Cook and 11 to Stokes, so 13 total offers. Perhaps someone declined their offer. [/quote]

Actually no, I think I analyzed this wrong. There were the above listed offers on the member schools' waitlist data, you can select each member school under DCI in the drop-down, but then there were *also* 12 offers on the non-feeder option. I don't think those are the same offers. So it was 11 (or 13) to member schools and then 12 more. But maybe I'm doing this wrong. [/quote]

On the non-feeder page, the "Matches by Preference Group" table is all zeros (including the no-preference cell), which is what led to my question. I'm still leaning toward the 12 showing the use of seats originally assigned to another feeder (probably LAMB).[/quote]

Right but those are just matches not waitlist offers.[/quote]

I thought incorrectly that the matches table was updated as WL offers went out; now I have no inclination what's going on.[/

There are not 12 non-feeder offers.  It just says 12 off the spanish waitlist at DCI.  Those kids are from feeders because you can see that there were more spanish kids at Stokes Brookland than spots.

Whatever leftover spanish seats from any feeder schools are filled by feeder schools who need more spots.  That is how it works.  So all feeder kids got spots.  If any leftover, then sibling is next.

There is no chance for non-feeder families in the spanish track moving forward where there will be more feeder kids in the pipeline.[/quote]

But isn't it double-counting to make the same 12 waitlisted kids offers on their own school's waitlist and also on the non-feeder waitlist?[/quote]

Why do you think it’s a non-feeder waitlist?  It does not say that.  I’m assuming it’s the general waitlist overall and then it’s broken down to more details about specific feeder waitlist.

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Because each feeder has its own waitlist in the drop-down menu. The non-feeder waitlist is the one with no feeder school listed. [/quote]

It doesn’t mean that it’s a non-feeder waitlist.  What happens is that the school does the feeder numbers first and fill the spots first with designated feeder school seats.  If there are more kids then spots they are waitlisted and go to the top of the general waitlist which PP above assumes incorrectly is for non-feeder kids.

Once all above is done with each school, they know how many feeder spots then are unfilled.  Then they go to the general waitlist which has feeder kids at the top who did not get their feeder school spot.  That is what they mean when they say feeder kids can get any feeder school spots and not just from their own school.

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But why does it show waitlist offers being made on the feeder school waitlists? Are offers made to those kids being counted twice? [/quote]

Yes counted on feeder school and counted on general waitlist.

The whole point the feeder school waitlist was created was specifically for families at feeder schools so they can see what trend is as feeder schools expand and there might not be enough seats offered in the initial lottery matched.  As you can see, even feeder kids are waitlisted, but as some schools don’t fill all their seats, then these waitlisted kids got all those seats till no feeder kid was waitlisted at all now.

Reality is just accept that if you are not at a feeder school, you will not get a spanish seat at DCI.  Makes life  easier to plan and move on to other options instead of obsessing about waitlist. 
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