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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Under the current rules if one child gets into a school, any siblings who don't also get in go to the top of the waitlist for their grade at that school. I see no indication that rule is going to change.

Under the unified lottery, every child is assigned to a school. So if you have two children in the lottery the same year, one of two things can happen: [b]either both get into the same school, or they get into two different schools, and each is number one on the waitlist at the other's school. [/b]
Under the unified lottery there is going to be less waitlist shuffling, but there's going to be some, because people with multiple kids at multiple schools are going to pick one school or the other, and when that happens a waitlist spot opens up. So number one on the waitlist at any school is almost guaranteed to get in. So having multiple kids in the lottery is like having multiple picks, and then being able to use the best pick for all your kids. [/quote]

So if child #1 is accepted at 1st choice school, and child #2 is accepted at 3rd choice school, child #1 will be put on waitlist at 3rd choice school b/c of the sibling?[/quote]

Correct, but child #1 won't be taken off the list at school #1. So #1 will have a spot at school 1 and a waitlist spot at school 3. Child #2 will have a spot at school 3 and waitlist spots at schools 1 and 2. Because of child 1 waitlist spot 1 will improve for child 2.[/quote]

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