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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As the parent of 3 kids, it helps more than I realized because of the tendency for the list to move in clumps. All 3 of my kids got into 2 of the hardest to get into schools on the Hill including, ironically, my upper elementary kid with an awful number, because as soon as one of her siblings got in, she jumped to 1 on the WL and they then gave her an offer that same day (in one case, it was the only offer they made by June per the data). I actually am sort of cyclical and wonder if they saw younger kid’s address and previous elementary school and decided that was a good time to move the older list rather than to admit whoever the prior #1 was. No idea how much info they have.[/quote]

Some schools just have a policy of taking all siblings. My older son also got an offer from a sought after DCPS and my younger son had an offer within 15 minutes. There wasn't necessarily a spot, they just wanted to keep the kids together.

By contrast, my younger son got an offer at a Hardy feeder and my older son jumped to #1, but then never got off the waitlist. (I accepted the top situation and took them both off all lists, so I'll never know if he would have eventually gotten off.)

Seems to be at the schools discretion.[/quote]

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