I've been trying to figure out the chances my dd's teacher has had a child in her class at the same level as dd and I can't wrap my brain around the problem.
If you can't tell, I'm trying to bolster my argument that dd belongs in the full day program.
Sorry -- let me try that again.
I'll let someone who actually took statistics work the numbers, but no matter the answer, I wouldn't hang too much on the stats involved to get your daughter into the class. While I know nothing about the teachers or admins involved, I'd safely bet that their eyes would roll waaaaay back into their heads if you approached them with any sort of raw statistical argument.
Your daughter could be 1/1,000,000, but I doubt any district would drop an enrolled GT student just because someone more statistically rare comes along.
I suppose you could argue about your daughter's ranking on the waiting list, but without knowing the intimate details of all the other waiting students, you'd be fighting that battle rather blindly.
Assuming your daughter's placement on the waiting list indicates meeting some particular standard for the program, I think the bulk of your work in getting her into the GT class is done. As such, your energies are probably best directed at obtaining some sort of accommodation within your daughter's current classroom.
