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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parents of 2nd and 3rd graders need to be paying attention to this thread. [/quote]

the real eye opener is the tightening of favored MS landing spots.  Hardy offered 1/4 OOB 6th seats as last year.  Latin nearly doubled its already large 5th grade waitlist and BASIS increased six fold.  I wonder how much of this is driven by schools not wanting to overextend by offering the true number of expected available seats.  For 5th grade there's an x factor in not knowing how your rising 4th graders will fare in lottery and open seats can be filled via waitlist over summer.  Hardy should have a better read on its rising 6th grade because lottery odds are dim for 6th grade charters.  Aside from Hardy, all of its feeders offered an extremely limited number of 5th grade seats and lower than SY14/15.

I have no horse in this race, but I'd say the arrow is pointing up on Hardy.[/quote]

For 5th BASIS offered fewer seats than in the past; Latin was steady at 90. But the number of 5th graders overall is up by 500 students. Not all were playing the lottery, but demand is definitely outstripping supply.

Remember Hardy only takes 6th graders - so people who struck out at 5th should be concerned if that was their plan for next year.

So people are either going to decide to take a chance on a less favored option, or move or apply for private at 6th. [/quote]

But Latin has 266 deep on its 5th grade waitlist and a share of the 90 seats filled were offered to siblings[/quote]

Hardy did offer 20 seats OOB and will dip into the waitlist but not like the 80 offered last year which was on par with Latin.

BASIS will go deep into that waitlist.  Not sure if they're projecting scarcity or if they genuinely don't know how many students are staying for 9th.[/quote]

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