Some magnet schools have a competitive entrance process, requiring an entrance examination, interview, or audition. Other magnet schools select all students who apply or use a lottery system, or a system combining some elements of competitive entrance and a lottery.
As of February 2016, WhatsApp had 1 billion monthly active users, up from April 2015 when the company announced over 800 million MAU. The company's growth in India is also pretty impressive at around 5 million additional MAU per month (60M in Aug '14).
Some 19 billion messages a day are received (and 36 billion sent) using WhatsApp. (OK, so $1 for each message sent todayâthatâs what Facebookâs paying.) In the Q&A session with analysts, the companies provided a little more color on the deal: