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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are waitlisted #3 for a school even with sibling preference.

Is that #3 in the sibling preference or overall?

Are there two other siblings parents waiting to get in ahead of us or is it #3 regardless of anything?[/quote]

If you are #3 with sibling preference the other kids ahead of you also have siblings. [/quote]

Or they might have a preference higher than sibling. One thing to note, poster ranked #3, is that other people can jump ahead of you if they have a higher preference. So depending on your situation, you might see your number go to 4, 5, etc. [/quote]

I don’t think that’s right, see here from the Waitlist FAQ on myschooldc:

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How waitlists are ordered
Waitlists are ordered by preference group (in-boundary, sibling, etc.) followed by students with no lottery preference for that school. Each group is ordered by random lottery number. Students who apply after the lottery application deadlines are added to waitlists below lottery applicants within the appropriate preference group and are ordered by submission date.  
 
Each school determines which preferences are offered at their school and in what order. This information can be found on each school’s My School DC profile. Click here to learn how lottery preferences work.[/quote]

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DP. The reason people can jump ahead of you on the list is if they have a sibling who got an offer at the school in the lottery, the system will bump them based on their newly acquired preference. Example:

Charlie gets a lottery draw of #81 (in the whole lottery, not at a particular school). Joey gets a lottery draw of #101. Both lottery for Elementary School ABC and rank it 1st.

But Joey already has an older sibling already at Elementary School ABC. So when the waitlist if formed, Joey jumps to #2 on the list, behind one other kid with a sibling at the school (but a better overall lottery number). Charlie is stuck down at #30 on the list, with no preference, even though his overall lottery number is higher than Joey's because Charlie has no preference.

Then Charlie's sister get's an offer for a spot in 1st grade at the school in the same lottery. Charlie's sister accepts the offer. So now Charlie has a sibling at the school, too. Since Charlie's overall lottery rank is higher (81 versus 101), Charlie will now leapfrog all the way up to #1 on the waitlist, past Joey.

And this is why it is not uncommon for families to see a waitlist number tick up a spot or two shortly after lottery results are released. It's the result of families accepting spots for siblings, thus bumping kids up the waitlist.[/quote]

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