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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It was announced as a possibility so yes there were people in line for PreK 3.  The very 1st person in line wanted PreK 3.[/quote]

We applied online for PK3. They told us at the first open house they might have a class. [b]Our time stamp was 8.10, so probably no chance for us.[/b][/quote]

Time stamp is very silly in the computer age.

If you had to sleep on the doorstep overnight that would really separate the serious from the non-serious. Having an online application timestamp allows non-serious to compete against serious and it's basically random (internet speed, luck of the page-loading draw, how fast can you type, etc).

For any of these more unusual language schools to really flourish they will eventually need to move to test-in or some other process. [b]I can't imagine trying to teach in mandarin to a class that included a bunch of random students with no interest in chinese, [/b]no support for the language at home. This is definitely not a put-down for YY, which sounds excellent - it just doesn't seem a good fit for a city-wide random lottery. 
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[b]The time stamp ensures there are no random students with no interest in Chinese. [/b] Parents do wait overnight. Every family that gets in wants to be there and is willing to put in the work.  That's the intent of the application procedure.
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We have no real interest in Chinese but I logged in at 8:00am.  If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it right.  It was no harder or more painful for me to log in at 8:00am then it would be have been for me to log in at 9:30.  Now if they made the log in at 3:00am or insisted that applicants stay in line overnight then they might have discourged me.  
As it is, if we get in to our JKLM for PK we would turn down Yu Ying in a heartbeat.  Yu Ying is just one of many back-up choices for us.[/quote]

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