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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also, for (hopefully) the last time: McKinley Tech does not now and has never, in recent memory, maintained a waitlist.  That's not how it works.  [/quote]

They waitlisted one kid last year. Three kids a few years earlier.

Last year they had 247 matches, this year only 163. I wonder why.[/quote]

Because they decreased the number of students they wanted to accept.  Every year they turn away far more students than they accept.  [/quote]

Well, that's hard to know. We don't know how many students they would have been happy to accept but who matched elsewhere. [/quote]

Also, the school itself has told students that they turn away far more students than they accept.  Unless they are lying, that's one data point. [/quote]

That's nice, but what I really want to know is how many *of those who completed the application process* would have been accepted had they not matched elsewhere. [/quote]

The point is that none of us know that data, but you can certainly request in in whichever manner you see fit.  But just declaring that it's not a selective school absent any actual evidence does not make it so.[/quote]

I'm not the one who said that, and I never would-- it definitely is a selective school. I don't find it to be very transparent in its admissions process, that's all.[/quote]

I agree completely.  I think all parties would be better served if the selective school application process was more transparent.  Additionally, given that these schools are public, greater transparency is something we are entitled to.[/quote]

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