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If a school has more applications than places available, then children are chosen according to each school's published oversubscription criteria.

From BBC • Jan. 2, 2026

Arm is discussing the possibility of raising the price range and seeking a valuation of more than $54.5 billion, in light of the IPO's oversubscription, the sources said.

From Reuters • Sep. 10, 2023

After decades of fighting over the meager trickles of the Jordan River and the oversubscription of a pipeline from the Sea of Galilee, Israel went back to the drawing board on its irrigated crops.

From Salon • Dec. 23, 2022

“Once we became clear that we did have more oversubscription to the program than there was, we figured out a solution to it.”

From Seattle Times • Nov. 28, 2022

This great oversubscription powerfully upheld the public credit and, thereafter, the position of the Treasury remained secure; but altogether, $262,000,000 in bonds had been sold to maintain its solvency.

From The Cleveland Era; a chronicle of the new order in politics by Ford, Henry Jones