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[quote=Anonymous]Your "lottery number" is basically going to be a tracking number for your application. It will not have any relationship to your waitlist numbers at schools you are waitlisted for. You will not have just one waitlist number unless you only are waitlisted at one school.

Each school has different numbers of applications, and some of those applications will have preference over others. You will have in-bounds preference at your in-bounds school, if you applied to it. If you have any older children already attending a school (suspect this is not the case based on questions), you would have sibling preference at that school (and possibly IB preference as well if it's your IB school). If you live within a certain distance of a school but are not IB for it, you would get proximity preference. Anyone who has one or more of those kinds of preference will have preference over anyone who has none.

Basically, speculating is not helpful. You can look at how many spaces a school has available. Sometimes you can get information directly from the school about how many siblings they expected to have applying. But none of that will tell you how many people applied total to one school, how they ranked that school in comparison with others or what their odds are for having a higher waitlist number than you.[/quote]

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