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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is a family at Stokes who were at Sela, got called off the wait-list at YY and left Sela, and then got called off the wait list for Stokes and left YY. Tell me that the system isn't broken. Kudos to the PCSB for getting tough on these shenanigans and blocking schools from time stamping applications for parents with the luxury to camp out. They aren't more committed - they just don't have the resources to skip work, have a spouse, or pay the au pair. [/quote]

You are conflating two things - waitlist order and the common lottery. PCSB has nothing to say about the timestamping; that is up to the individual schools to decide. The common lottery would not have helped this situation as long as Stokes and YY are not participating. If all the schools were participating, the situation would presumably have been better because all students, including those who had to leave YY and Stokes in order to move those lists, would have gotten into the schools they liked best from the outset.

Not sure why Stokes isn't joining the common lottery if they're not continuing their practice of ordering their waitlist by time.[/quote]

Someone claimed earlier that this change was put in place by the PCSB as a condition of getting the Stokes charter renewed. Seemed very fishy to me. I think Stokes just decided to make this change on their own, probably because of all the problems with the server last year when they went online only and had the time stamp--I'm sure a lot of people complained that they tried to get on when the system wouldn't let them, and that it was unfair. In any case, I agree with you that Stokes should sign up for the common lottery--seems odd that they are not, given this change.[/quote]

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