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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, my 6th grade WL numbers for French and Chinese dropped about 30 spots each today. So that would seem to imply uptake is not 100%.[/quote]

It could be that some people are removing themselves from the waitlist as they enroll at other schools.

It doesn’t mean that all those spots are openings at the school. [/quote]

Well yes. But 30 within an hour or so seems unlikely to be the result of random people doing whatever they are doing separately.[/quote]

Sure but the school could also have waited to notify and update their waitlist until now.  I highly doubt they called and offered all those families seats within an hour or even a day.[/quote]

Actually, they did. Students from feeder schools who did not get one of the guaranteed spots through the lottery get preference for the remaining spots. For example, Stokes gets 20 guaranteed French spots. But DCI has about 30 additional French spots. Stokes French kids get preference to those additional 30 spots. DCI just needs to manually clear them off the waitlist because it's not baked into the lottery algorithm. That's why the waitlist numbers moved so quickly.[/quote]

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