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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So do you get one, single randomly assigned lottery number that applies to all 12 of your selections?  Or are you entered essentially into almost 12 separate lotteries for each school, with a random assigned number for that school?

Man would it SUCK to get a crappy number for all 12 choices.  Wouldn't that essentially (unless you have both IB and sibling preference for your 1st choice or something) knock you out of the whole lottery because, at least for the more popular schools, there is guaranteed to be more people with better numbers who ranked it high enough to be competing with you?[/quote]

It sounds like 1 number.  Not 12 different numbers.
So it essentially boils down to your lottery number, it seems.[/quote]

Wow, no words for how much that sucks for folks with really bad numbers.  Like, no words.  That's why I wish wish wish how the student ranks the school DID come into play.  If I'm in the same preference category (let's say no preference at all - no sib pref, no IB pref), and I (Suzie) ranked school A #2, and Johnny ranked school A #5 but didn't get into 1-4 yet (and he also has no preferences), if his lottery number is better than mine he's going to get the spot.  That SUCKS.  I think the student who wanted it badly enough to put it at 2 should get it over the person who put it at 5, if all else is equal except lottery number.  Yuck, so much for true 2-way matching.[/quote]

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