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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To all the people making some sort of argument about why they need OOB vs IB data for this year, can you help me out here?  You are enrolled in School A. You are apparently considering a move to school B (and for to anticipate someone's inevitable argument, School C).  How does current WL data help you? Presumably you know that you prefer B and C to A, else you wouldn't care.  So if you enter lottery for C and B (respectively) and C and B both WL you then you know they not taking OOB.  And if one is and isn't and you put them on the list on true order of preference then it matters not.

But the real reason I call BS on all of you with nonsensical hypos for why you need to know in order to make a decision about changing schools or buying a new house is this...the WL data you seek is a month or two old. And even when they release it anew it will be stale.  If you were going to drop a million or so dollars on a house and you identified a single, or two schools, you'd pick up the damn phone.

I can at least respect the people who admit they want the data cause they just want it and they are demanding whiny people (I may be extgrapolating), the rest of you are just full of SH*T.[/quote]

I can't speak for all the PPs interested in the data, but for someone shut out of 12 PK3 choices (there is no School A that we are enrolled in), I am interested in the data to see whether we have a chance on any of our 12 WLs.  It would be helpful to know whether everyone in front of us on a WL is IB or not, both for purposes of assessing the likelihood of that WL moving, and for next year's planning purposes.  With another kid just a year behind the waitlisted one, I am trying to figure out what to do for the next 3+ years, and whether to move, if none of our local options are truly available to OOB.  That may seem premature or whiny to you, but I think it's reasonable for families to want to plan using data that has been available in the past.

Someone with kids on 5th grade WLs can speak to that, but I know there are similar planning reasons there.[/quote]

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