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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It just dawned on me that I haven't seen Sela listed in any of the lists posted. [/quote]

Considering the vitriol that's been spewed at Sela, due to what objectively appears to be racial/religious prejudice, I would be a little scared of mentioning Sela myself.

Instead, my family is just part of the DCI feeder consortium, but I hope Sela joins us.[/quote]

That's ridiculous as a reason that people aren't mentioning it.  There has been no discussion on this thread about anything other than the pluses and minuses of different schools as ways of understanding other people's choices.  Your post PP seems like an attempt to cover up the reality that there may just not be much interest in Sela as a 1st round draft pick school.  Way back when, when you waded through the conversations about Sela as a proposed school and then as an approved school, aside from the vitriol there were MANY posts about the value of Hebrew immersion.  That is simply not an in-demand language on the world stage.

Your suggestion that the lack of mentions of Sela on these lists is really people "hiding" their application because they're afraid to post it, as opposed to the simple fact that probably most people didn't put it on their list at all, is silly.

And that shouldn't be a surprise that so far no one has mentioned it (or, I thought I saw one person who did).  Sela did not fill up this year, and in the "DCUM battles for most popular schools", they are not a school that people are fighting about admission into.  If I was interested in Sela, I still wouldn't apply to it in the 1st round (unless it was my 1st choice) because it is highly likely that there will be plenty of spots in 2nd round.  That's not about "racial/religious prejudice".  That's about the fact that this whole lottery situation is about trying to increase your liklihood of getting in SOMEWHERE that you'll feel good about, and if a school that you think would be fine will most likely still have slots when the original 1st round dust settles, why would you use up a precious spot in the 1st round on it?[/quote]

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