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[quote=Anonymous][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 [b][u]we would turn down Yu Ying in a heartbeat.[/u][/b]  Yu Ying is just one of many back-up choices for us.[/quote]

Exactly.  They want the people who want Yu Ying more than anything else and who are committed to staying.

Enjoy your JKLM.[/quote]

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