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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In response to 13:44
First off, not making it public knowledge that your wait list is based on time-stamp.  This is a slimy way to manipulate which families make up your school community.  I never would have known that if a YY parent hadn't told me.    This past year, we got in and we were excited because YY is in walking distance, we really wanted a bi-literate program, and we'd heard good things about YY.  I was nervous about the Chinese aspect since I do not speak Chinese so   I asked to have a meeting to help us further understand what to expect.  I was told that I should have gone to an open house - which I did, 3 of them actually.    I called and stopped in asking for more information and was told to read the website.  It was a complete turn off. 
 2 years ago we applied and  we never got a call.   We had friends, Mother is Chinese, who's number was lower on the wait list and she got a call.  I called the school and asked about it and they said there was no way someone lower on the list than me got a spot because there hadn't been any more movement.  Yet her daughter did IN FACT get in.  Are those the practices you wanted me to share?[/quote]

1.  They said the part about waitlist being ordered by when application is received at the open house I went to.  How is that hiding and manipulating that policy?

2.  I'm not a current YY parent, just a hopeful, but I have had a totally different experience than you in asking for additional info.  I have stopped in as well, and 2 people took time to answer the questions they could, and told me who to call for the questions they couldn't.  Those were answered when I saw the YY rep at the Charter Expo, so I didn't have to call.  But when I stopped in, they were very accomodating.

3.  Only you know if the details on the whole waitlist thing are true, although it sounds too fuzzy and I don't personally believe it.   Personally, I feel like they seemed to go out of their way to have the waitlist process be fair, as well as continuing to time/date stamp every application I saw them receive at the Charter Expo, etc.   I think there are so many YY haters, if they were really fudging the system, it would have blown wide open by now.  So I'm not swayed at all by your story but you have a right to tell it if it's true.[/quote]

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