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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]

Your lottery number is not the same for all schools, so your second scenario is not accurate. No worries there. But it's not exactly as simple as each school running a separate lottery, because rather than having the schools run the lottery and then choose the students, the students in the algorithm do the requesting of the spot. They are temporarily assigned and reassigned in many rounds. In the end, your relative waitlist number will vary in the schools you apply to because their "rank" of you depends first on preference (they will always choose someone who is IB over someone who is OOB, e.g.) and then, within that preference band, by random lottery number.

As PP said, all you need to do is list in the order of preference.[/quote]

Sorry, should have been more clear - your lottery number ORDER is not the same for all schools. Meaning, within preference catgories, each school then randomly chooses an order for the people who have applied. So you could be without a sibling at TR and have a relatively good spot on the waitlist and without a sibling at MV and be in a terrible waitlist position.[/quote]

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