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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So if your lottery number says #4, and you have in boundary preference, does that mean you are 4th on the list of those with in boundary preference, or are you 4th among all current applicants (and 1-3 are potentially sibling attending preference)?[/quote]

Your waitlist number is always your overall number on the waitlist. There is not a separate waitlist for kids with preferences. You are fourth in line for the school.

However, your IB preference likely helped you get such a high number, jumping you past OOB students with better lottery draws but no preference.

And yes, it's possible the one or more of the 3 kids on the list above yours are both IB and sibling preferences. [b]But they also might just be IB preference. Or just sibling preference.[/b] That part is not possible to know but also doesn't change anything for you. You're fourth on the list and unless you get bumped due to a student gaining a new preference  (usually sibling preference due to a sibling being given an offer or admitted to the school), you are fourth in line for an offer. Congrats -- those are decent odds at the vast majority of schools (there are some who wont even make that many offers, but most will at least go to 4 on their waitlist).[/quote]

No. There is an order to the preferences. If the person ranked #4 has IB but not sibling preference, the only people above them would have either IB with sibling enrolled, IB with sibling offered, or just IB. They would not have OOB sibling. The only exception is if it's a dual language school, where sibling and IB preference are in reverse order.[/quote]

You have the order wrong, PP had it right. The order of preference at this dual language school is IB w/ sibling, sibling attending, sibling offered, IB, any of which could be ahead of an IB preference on the waitlist.[/quote]

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