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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Director here.  There is a considerable amount of work surrounding the processing of an application and maintaining a wait list.  Plus, as previously noted the fee is meant to discourage people who are not serious and place their names on wait lists when they have no intention of registering.  [/quote]

Hello Director.  Please give us some insight if you could.  Suppose you were not a director of a center anymore and you were 2 months pregnant and would be in need of a spot somewhere soon.  Knowing what you know about centers and waitlists:

1) Would you pay the non refundable fee and sign up to be on wait lists?
2) How many centers would you sign up for? 3? 5? more?[/quote]

You don't need a director to answer this question.  See my previous post.  Sign up for as many as you can afford and would realistically attend if offered a spot.  Bright Horizons lets you sign up for 3 centers on one application, so there's some savings.  It's like grad school application fees.  In the scheme of how much you'll be paying for day care (or grad school), the wait list fee is minimal.  Yes, it sucks, but day care is much less than a nanny or even a nanny share.  So, if you're like me and need childcare so you can go to work, then you have to sign up as early as possible at as many places as possible, be flexible with your start date, maybe pay for a month or 2 early if you're offered a spot, etc.  There is a huge demand for daycare, so things don't work exactly how and when we want them to or cost as little as we'd like them to.[/quote]

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