Here's the response we received from admissions today:
Due to the overwhelming number of vacancies submitted (due to redistricting, the overwhelming number of Principals nominated, and the decreasing Class Size) the Admissions Department is doing our best to accommodate each candidate...
You are not going to believe this but the VERY SAME thing has happened to my daughter. Principal nomination in hand (doublechecked the wording on it today) and got the waitlist letter in the mail today. Plan to email everyone to see what happened. Seems really odd this happened to two principal...