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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The wait lists are weird in that they are in numerical order.  That doesn't make sense to me if it was a random lottery.[/quote]

are they allowed to do the waitlists by date/time of application? That is how YY and Stokes used to do it.  Basically, the first person in line became #1, the next became #2, etc. They would draw the number of kids for whom they had open slots, then put everyone else in number order on the waitlist.  So if 10 people wanted to attend, they had 5 slots, and numbers 1, 2, 4, 6, and 8 got the slots, the waitlist would look like:

1. #3
2. #5
3. #7
4. #9
5. #10

It really encouraged people to sign up as fast as possible, in some cases camping outside the night before or hiring line-sitters.  If Bethune is using this model, it would make sense for the waitlist to be numerical.  The people who were missing could be errors, or could be people who withdrew from the lottery. 
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No, what they've done is a random lottery and then ordered the results numerically so that you can find your number more easily - presumably they are not listed in the order drawn because it doesn't really matter if you were the first or the 31st to be drawn if you got in.  Because a high proportion of people got in and waitlists are short it appears almost numerical, but the first 10 numbers for PK3 went like this:

Admitted: 2, 4, 5, 7, 8
Waitlist: 1, 3

It's not obvious where 6 and 9 are but perhaps they withdrew.[/quote]

I also think there are a few people who applied thinking that there was a December 31 deadline,  because this was nebulous on the website and there's nothing  in their admissions process or charter bylaws that state the 30th so they got thrown out of the lottery before the pull.[/quote]

I would have been interested if they had a 12/31 deadline.[/quote]

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