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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think they are probably just really lucky.

There are strange things that happen.

I have a friend whose kid got into SWS this year, and they live a block away from the new site.  So part of me wonders, did they secretly do some kind of proximity preference?

[b]Two years ago, my twins had waitlist numbers which followed each other at 3 of the six schools (19 and 20, 59 and 60, and 25 and 26).  That seemed so strange that that happened randomly.[/b]
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That simply CANNOT be random, can it??  That seems like some feature/glitch in the system that entered sibs or twins together.  Did you ever meet anyone else with twins that year who did the lottery, and did they have a similar experience?  Maybe there's a way and a reason that's intentional..?[/quote]
Bridges did something like this in the spring 2010 lottery (they may have done it other years, but I only know about 2010). When a child's name was drawn, if that child had a sibling then the sibling's name was automatically given the next spot in line. (However, in 2010 Bridges would keep the sibling's name in the hat & draw it at random later, so a family could have waitlist #s 12, 13 and 78 for only two kids. If the child who was drawn at 12 didn't enroll, 13 would slip back to 78.)[/quote]

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