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Registration Status
RAP registration closed yesterday at midnight EST. We had 1668 registrations, up from 1608 at the closing of registration last year. This number will increase some as we add registrations to match with the leftover pile.

In addition to lots of Canadian and American schools participating, we have a nice group from the UK this year, as well as first time participation from Costa Rica and Australia!

Leftovers
Now we begin work on the 300-ish leftovers that weren’t perfect matches. Leftovers are the ones that we couldn’t find a perfect match for. Leftovers are caused by several factors:

• requests with only one time or very few times
• odd numbers of requests
• languages are still hard to match because we don’t get enough registrations
• middle and high school are usually hard to match because there are fewer registrations
• ISDN is getting harder and harder to match as fewer and fewer schools have ISDN
• late afternoon west coast times are hard to match because there are fewer requests at those times

Leftover strategies
We have several ways to work with leftovers and it just takes time. Hence the delay! Here are some of the things we do:

• Calling coordinators with lots of leftovers to see if additional times can be added to those requests
• Using late match requests to match with leftovers (we only take late requests from verified schools)
• Calling “tried & true” RAP coordinators to beg for help matching with leftovers
• Forcing some not-so-perfect matches together (grade levels or times not quite the same)
• Begging friends to bridge IP to ISDN to take care of the ISDN leftovers

How you can help

• Be patient!!!!
• Don’t change your mind on any sessions!
• Answer your phone & email if we need to contact you.
• If you have extra interested teachers and have already verified equipment, then fill out our form. If you’re willing to be flexible and match specific times, then do one form and just tell us and we’ll call you. If we can use you to fill a match we will. If not, we’re sorry, but we can’t create more leftovers!

Partner Information
We’re aiming to get the leftovers done and partner information out sometime the last week in January. I know many of you will help us get there. Thanks for all your patience and support of this project!