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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because the demand for slots from preferenced students (feeders + siblings + staff) exceeds the available seats in the more popular language tracks (chinese and spanish).  They can't just shift all excess spots away from french, as they need a certain number of students in the french track to make class sizes and scheduling practical.
And they would not have known until the preferenced students accept or reject their offers whether they would have extra spots in Chinese and Spanish, so how could they have told you?  In any case, you can tell by looking at the past numbers that you had a slim chance of getting in off the lottery even if they had a couple extra spots.
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Chances for Chinese aren't that slim. Last year they made 23 5th grade offers to an initial waitlist of 59 kids. For 8th, 44 offers were made and only 48 kids were on the initial waitlist.[/quote]

Same question as OP. Why not just have 20 open slots instead of zero slots with a default to waitlist? I thought that it might be explained by growth in feeder school cohort sizes (siblings?) but it looks like they've only needed to add a handful of preference slots each year.[/quote]

I think because they want to keep the no-preference kids from matching until all siblings and preference kids have been admitted. So like if a kid at YY matched for 6th, then enrolled, that would trigger a preference for their sibling who didn't attend YY, the sibling would jump to the top of the Chinese no-preference list. Right?[/quote]

I bet this is correct—I believe at least some of the Spanish feeders did not take all of their spots, so there would presumably be spots once they figure this out.[/quote]

You can view it now.  https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/aaron2446/viz/MSDCSeatsandWaitlistOfferData_draft/MSDCPublicDisplay

DCI-YY matched 52 out of 52 spots offered, with 2 kids waitlisted (not sure how that works-- maybe the weird sibling match rule?)

DCI-Stokes French matched 19 out of 20 spots offered, 0 on the waitlist. So I guess that opens a seat for a non-feeder French kid. Non-feeder French matched 30 out of 30 spots offered with 130 on the waitlist.

DCI-DCB matched 43/43 with 0 on the waitlist.
DCI-Stokes Spanish matched 16/19, so I guess 3 kids didn't list it or matched elsewhere. So that opens 3 seats for non-feeder kids.
DCI-LAMB matched 45 out of 46 seats offered, with 0 on the waitlist. So that's 1 seat left over.
DCI-Mundo matched 66/66, with 0 on the waitlist.

I'm not sure how they decide how many seats to offer, maybe it automatically sets to equal the number of applicants, the way the Early Action preschool seats do?[/quote]

Very helpful and proves that there is likely going to be no seats for non-feeder families in the next 1-2 years.   Also disproves that high performers from feeders are not tracking to DCI, especially from the vocal anti-YY crowd.[/quote]

Well, not necessarily. There were 30 French non-feeder seats offered in this year's lottery, with 30 matches and 130 on the waitlist. Even if every single kid from Stokes Brookland and Stokes East End matriculated to DCI, there would still be 10 or so spots left over.

Also, this is just the initial lottery results. Last year, non-YY Chinese track DCI offered 20 seats, matched 20 kids, and made 23 further offers. Either they don't have a high offer acceptance rate for those seats (totally possible), or some YY kids matched and then declined the match later and their seats were offered to non-feeder kids. I'm really not sure.[/quote]

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