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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The fact that Banneker and McKinley didn’t match all the seats is meaningless. The number of seats they put down is essentially a guess and a maximum. Then they decide from the pool of applicants who/how many to interview, and then from that who/how many to admit. Only those the school deems “Eligible” after the interview process can be admitted. The the number of kids on the tableau form is how many were deemed “eligible.” It tells zero information about how many applied. If they want to fill to the original number the seats they put down, they would have done it. [/quote]

It's not meaningless, it indicates that the wait-list may clear, and then what?[/quote]

There is no waitlist. Banneker wants 180 freshmen, they admitted 245, they’re calculating that 65 will enroll elsewhere. It’s exactly how private school and college admissions work: admit more students than you plan to enroll, calculating that not all of them will enroll. Walls does something similar; they matched 180 but usually have only 150 freshmen. [/quote]

They did clear their waitlist.  They couldn’t fill the 260 seats they had.  They only filled 245 seats.

If they have 180 seats and set aside 260 seats, that tells me a lot of kids, over 40% don’t enroll and go there.[/quote]

They could have easily filled 260 seats, but they instead rejected certain applicants as ineligible without putting them on the waitlist. See the recent Banneker thread.

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