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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]6th grade. In at Field. WL at Maret.

Anyone know if Maret is a real waitlist or if they don’t decline anyone? [/quote]

It might be real wait list if you are first in the list. [/quote]

But that’s not how it works. It’s a pool of students, not a ranked list.  In the case of Maret, Potomac, GDS and perhaps many others, it’s nearly all of the non-admitted students.  In the very unlikely event that all of the admitted students do not yield enough enrolled students, they will seek a student with underrepresented attributes from the pool. It might be a gender or race, it might be excellence in a specific position for a specific sport, it might be someone who is a nerdy STEM rockstar or a perfect soprano.

As so many others have pointed out and is detailed is so many other threads, schools have been doing this for a very long time.  They know that for every 50 9th graders that they admit, 20 will enroll (just an example - not actual projected yield guesstimates). So, if they have 20 spots, they’ll admit 20.  If they get between 18-24 enrollees, great.  If they get 15, they might go to the waiting pool for a few spots. For the most competitive schools, this is infrequent and rare but does happen.

If you “give up your spot,” you’re not opening a wait pool spot. You are one of the 30 in the aforementioned example that they expected not to enroll.[/quote]

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