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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think there are people on the waiting lists for Banneker and McKinley who received an error in the system ("ineligible"). Time will tell.[/quote] I disagree. McKinley has never operated a significant waitlist, and Banneker never operated one until last year (and I don’t think they were too happy with the experience). Before last year, both schools had a practice of giving an artificially high number of seats to the lottery, so as to match with the highest possible number of students on match day, with the knowledge that some of those students would elect to go elsewhere. This strategy means there’s a risk the school will miss their target number either up or down, but it evens out over time. You need to look at both the lottery data and the enrollment audit data to see the full picture. Time will indeed tell, but I think people who are not waitlisted really are not waitlisted. [/quote]
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