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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oooh how thrilling! That was quick.

McKinley Tech matched 250 and waitlisted 12. This is the first year in the data that it filled its whole 250-seat offering. More applicants than last year.

[b]Banneker had a dip in applicants, but matched 239 of 260 offered seats.[/b]

Walls had 1449 applicants, filled all 260 offered seats, and waitlisted 226.

For Ellington you have to go through each, but it seems like Cinema didn't fill, Dance did, Instrumental didn't, Museum Studies didn't, Tech didn't, Theater didn't, Visual didn't, and Vocal didn't. Leaving them pretty short of kids.

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Explain this to a novice.  It says they had 1126 applicants and "matched" 239 of the 260 seats.  Huh?   [/quote]

Application schools decide whether each applicant is eligible or ineligible. They then admit all the eligible students for whom they have room who do not match with higher-ranked schools. [/quote]

OK . . . So does this mean Banneker still has 21 available seats?[/quote]

No. They make the number of seats greater than the class they want because they know not everyone will match/accept.[/quote]

It's all very confusing.  Why is there no wait-list yet?  I read the numbers as 1126 applied and 236 were accepted.  It's not that straightforward?  [/quote]
Banneker might not WL.  Walls does (but 40 or so kids have to turn down the spot before they get into the WL).  [/quote]

Banneker has gone to its waitlist in some past years. If you go on the Tableau site you'll see that usually there's no or very little wait-list. But then for SY 23-24, 72 kids WL and 70 offers. I honestly have no idea what caused that unusual year-- was it the year of the move?

Remember that Banneker is not completely in control of whether it has a waitlist. Banneker has a certain number of seats it's offering, and a certain number of kids it would like to match in the lottery. And then it has its pool of eligible kids. But Banneker does not know whether those eligible kids are likely to match at other schools they ranked higher, so it does not know how many kids it will actually match from its eligible pool. It can estimate based on past data, but it's never going to be really precise.[/quote]

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