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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am perplexed that Ellington didn't waitlist anyone. If someone moves to DC now and does a post-lottery application would they be at the top of the waitlist? Does the waitlist move at all? Do they even have a procedure to assess kids outside the normal timeframe (assuming your dad isn't the chancellor)?[/quote]

You need to call them and ask. I don't know the answer.

But I do understand how it happens. The application schools each independently develop an admission list from all their applicants. However, each application school doesn't know how the students ranked them.

A student can apply and go through the process at multiple application schools -- let's say that Joe applies to McKinley, Banneker, and Ellington. Joe attends Washington Latin, but wants to try his look and think about changing. At the conclusion of the interview/application/audition process, all 3 application schools put Joe on their list of admitted students.

Joe ranked the schools 1) Banneker 2) Ellington 3) McKinley on his application. When the results come out, he was admitted to Banneker. He has no idea whether he would have been admitted to Ellington or McKinley because they dropped off his list.

After mulling over his results, Joe decides to stay at Latin for high school. So all 3 application schools are down an applicant, which they had no way of knowing. For those 3 schools the wait list isn't deep or is nonexistent because they don't want to admit students who didn't clear their bar (3.0+ 4 or 5 on PARCC for Banneker and McKinley; audition for Ellington)

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Way fewer kids matched with McKinley this year than last year.  Why would that happen? 
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1) Because of Coolidge and Bard.

2) McKinley's applicant pool is improving academically but that also causes more overlap with Walls, Ellington, and Banneker.[/quote]

Also I think McKinley only recently introduced the requirement of a 4 or 5 on both parts of PARCC. It looks like it was the policy for 2018-19 but not sure about prior years.[/quote]

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