That's a bit weird, didn't they announce a bulge class very late in the process? If so, then a lot of children on the waiting list would have got in. Maybe they are referring to the waiting list after the bulge class was done?

Or am I mixing the years?

No personal experience, but I have heard of people getting in when they were lower than #3 on the waiting list. But they were fairly high up on the waiting list after the first allocation. Now that a shakedown has occurred and I guess the waiting list has 'moved up' then I'm not sure how promising #3 is...