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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The wait lists are weird in that they are in numerical order.  That doesn't make sense to me if it was a random lottery.[/quote]

are they allowed to do the waitlists by date/time of application? That is how YY and Stokes used to do it.  Basically, the first person in line became #1, the next became #2, etc. They would draw the number of kids for whom they had open slots, then put everyone else in number order on the waitlist.  So if 10 people wanted to attend, they had 5 slots, and numbers 1, 2, 4, 6, and 8 got the slots, the waitlist would look like:

1. #3
2. #5
3. #7
4. #9
5. #10

It really encouraged people to sign up as fast as possible, in some cases camping outside the night before or hiring line-sitters.  If Bethune is using this model, it would make sense for the waitlist to be numerical.  The people who were missing could be errors, or could be people who withdrew from the lottery. 
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No, what they've done is a random lottery and then ordered the results numerically so that you can find your number more easily - presumably they are not listed in the order drawn because it doesn't really matter if you were the first or the 31st to be drawn if you got in.  Because a high proportion of people got in and waitlists are short it appears almost numerical, but the first 10 numbers for PK3 went like this:

Admitted: 2, 4, 5, 7, 8
Waitlist: 1, 3

It's not obvious where 6 and 9 are but perhaps they withdrew.[/quote]

I think as far as ADMITTED students go, it doesn't matter that they reordered the lists numerically.  But they also did it for the waitlists, which seems unfair.  We have sibling preference, and are way lower on a waitlist than I expected, because they ordered the waitlists numerically and we had a higher number.[/quote]

Sounds like they did the waitlist in the order that people applied, which is how Yu Ying and Stokes used to do it.[/quote]

I don't think so.  We applied the very first day the lottery opened, and we have almost the highest number for PK3.  I very much doubt everyone applied the day the lottery opened, and no one applied after the first day.  There is definitely some sort of organizational problem.[/quote]

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