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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]it doesnt.  but some people rely on the lottery for middle school and lots of seats at hardy is a big change from several years ago.[/quote]

It's the same number of seats. It's just this year they were offered off the waitlist and last year they were awarded in the lottery.

I suspect the reason they offered fewer seats in the lottery this year is because they were anticipating more IB attrition last year than they got, and wound up overenrolled. So this year they offered fewer lottery seats so that they could wait until they knew their IB enrollment, and then begin making offers to people on the waitlist.

There are a lot of schools who manage the lottery/waitlists this way some years. DCPS will get mad if you do it every year, and start insisting you offer more lottery seats. But they'll give you some leeway if you can show that you exceeded certain enrollment benchmarks the previous year. Figuring out how many lottery seats to offer is always a guessing game.

Hardy will still have full enrollment this year with very good IB buy in, just like last year. The 6th grade class will have about 25-30 new OOB students, just like last year, but many of them will have arrived at the school via a waitlist offer instead of a lottery match. That's truly the only difference.[/quote]

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