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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is strange to you about the application process?

I can't figure out how the wait list is determined. For example last year 100+ kids were put on the wait list. Are they ranked 1-240 by the school and the first 140 are offered slots? Or does your lottery number play a role if there are more qualified applicants than slots (And yes I realize that at least another couple hundred didn't make it to the interview stage and aren't reflected on the wait list).

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Yes, it's a straight ranking. There is no lottery (ie luck) involved. People on the wait list move up as initial admissions offers are rejected. Lots of kids who get initial offers don't go so there is a fair amount of wait list movement. [/quote]

Well that makes the demographics even more interesting. The pie chart is perfectly balanced.[/quote]

Maybe, maybe not.  You'd have to know the demographics of who is admitted and what the yield rates look like.  A lot of admitted students didn't accept last year, and they ended up needing a second round of admissions tests and interviews to fill the class.  Among other things, the AWOL principal -- and his ridiculous idea to have all 11th graders relocated to the Francis-Stevens facility -- scared off potential parents.[/quote]

In the principal's defense, he is playing the hand he was dealt by DCPS.

It was 2 years ago that they had a second round of admission testing,  not last year.[/quote]

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