Sentences with phrase «than available seats»

Schools must also hold a random lottery if there are more eligible applicants than available seats.

When charter schools receive more applications than available seats, they admit students by random lottery.

Many schools have a lottery system in place to make sure that all eligible students have a fair chance at getting in when the demand is greater than the available seats.

Not all airlines engage in the practice of selling more tickets than available seats on an aircraft.

If there are more interested students than available seats, charter schools will hold lotteries, which randomly determine which students will be enrolled.

Charter schools are open to all children on a first - come, first - serve basis unless there is more demand than available seats for the school, in which case a blind lottery is held to determine admission.

Bumping, also known as «denied boarding,» happens when there are more passengers scheduled to fly on an airplane than available seats.

That method is the best way to measure the impact of those schools, but these studies have a potentially important shortcoming: they can only examine charters that are so popular that they have more applicants than available seats.

LOWER MANHATTAN — Downtown's elementary schools have once again been flooded with more kindergarten applications than available seats — with an even larger overflow than last year.

There are far more applicants than available seats, but Community Roots maintains a waitlist and accepts students at every grade level, as openings arise.