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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I only want my child to go to my inbound school for PS3, but have only about a 50% chance to the lottery. If I list that as my only choice, would I then be added to the waitlist if I don't get in? Or, are there no longer any waitlists at all?[/quote]

I didn't see anything in the article to indicate there are NO waitlists.

My guess is it will run like the DCPS lottery did last year -- you can only be admitted to one choice, and you'll be waitlisted at other choices (not only higher-ranked ones).

The main difference will be, with most charters and DCPS on a single lottery, no one can be admitted to more than one of the participating schools.

That alone will cut down the waitlist shuffle dramatically -- people who get into their top choice presumably can't/won't switch to anywhere else, so way fewer waitlist spots will open up for the people who got into a second/third choices. So those people, in turn, will stick with the school they got into, and so on down the line.

Waitlists can't go away completely; there will always be people who get a spot at a nonparticipating charter, or decide to go private, or move away from DC unexpectedly.[/quote]

I sounds like the algorhythm will be dofferent from DCPS, in that it will maximize the # of people who will get into a top choice. Will be interesting to read details when they are out.[/quote]

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