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One could certainly imagine a lottery system where kids get one number for each SCHOOL they choose, mitigating risk and allowing a new shot at every school — not just a totally correlated slate of outcomes, all good or all bad.
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A sucky lottery number is a sucky lottery number.

What you're proposing is more draws, but at the end of the day those with good draws get good outcomes and those with bad draws get bad outcomes. More draws doesn't increase the number of desirable seats. [/quote]

Right.  But more draws per year WOULD help a lot of students.

Say you have kids whose parents feel equally good about Mundo Verde and Yu Ying.  In the current system, kids often do well enough to get into both, or poorly so they get into neither.  (Due to different waitlists and desireability there is some gray area inbetween even with the current system.)

But if the kid got a number for each SCHOOL, then they’d have a separate roll of the dice for each.  They could bomb in the Mundo lottery and do well in the YY lottery.  And they’re more likely to end up in one school they want.

Any situation where a kid/parent has a few choices that are relatively equally competitive, and relatively similarly ranked by the kid/parent, would be improved by the child-school lottery number system.[/quote]

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