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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]ITDS didn't move at all for 5th. Wow. It did move for 6th though.[/quote]

Sounds like they are accurately accepting the right number of kids in the initial lottery, because I know that there were several new faces in the fifth grade this year.[/quote]

Yes, there were some new kids, not a ton. So many ITDS kids went to Latin Cooper the first year Cooper opened, there's kind of a sibling echo of that. [/quote]

They had 15 seats for 5th so there were more than a few new kids.  That means they lost about 30% of the kids after 4th grade. Same thing with 5th, where they lost 30% of the class since there were 15 seats for 6th.

That is a significant number of kids not staying for middle school.[/quote]

No, they over-fill in the initial lottery and then not all kids accept. I have a kid in that cohort and there certainly are not 15 new kids. That level of attrition happened when Cooper first opened but not since then. [/quote]

No idea what you are talking about.  The data is right there.  They had 15 seats for 5th and filled those 15 seats with the match.

Same for 6th. 15 seats open and filled 15 seats on result day.
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So, schools are allowed to choose how many seats to offer. They're allowed to offer more seats than they typically have vacancies, on the assumption that not everyone offered a seat will accept. ITDS chose to offer 15 seats for 5th grade, and 15 kids matched, but there were not 15 new kids because not all 15 accepted their seats. [/quote]

What proof do you have that they do this?  That is not how the lottery works.

Also your premise does not work because you can see that the waitlist did move for 6th.  [/quote]

It is exactly how the lottery works, and my proof is that I have kids there and I know the kids and have the class roster to compare with last year's roster from 4th grade. I can count the names that are the same.

For 6th, they did move the waitlist, either because of people leaving or people not accepting offers at a higher rate than expected. My premise is consistent with that. 5th is easier to predict because that's when siblings of Latin students leave and they very consistently do. ITDS is a small school and people know who has siblings at other schools. [/quote]

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