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[quote=Anonymous]I get those saying "we want more not less info" but what if that info is bogus? Whether or not your rationality is influenced by it, in fact especially so if it is, bogus information is worse than no information. The fact is that most experienced principals will not truly disclose haw many OOB slots they expect to offer. They simply sprinkle a few into the lottery to signal that there are (when there are).  Having worked on LSAT's often enough, I know you can see situations where a principal may put, say, 3 seats into the lottery knew full well that there would be at least 30 to be filled. There are more extreme cases than that. That is their rationality in response to the incentives the lottery system provides, as much as it may be yours to look to those (bogus) numbers for guidance.

Worse, instead of providing actual, helpful information, it did nothing but confuse about what else those numbers might mean: What!? That many OOB kids? Why so many? What's going on there? Nothing wrong with that but how is that helpful if the actual OOB numbers have literally nothing in common with the numbers that the principals would want to disclose in the lottery?[/quote]

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