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[quote=Anonymous]I think it might make sense to let people rank schools as a "tie." Right before the lottery, some people are always saying "how do I rank these similar schools?" And then after, the same people are struggling to decide if they'd move if they come off the waitlist. If you let people rank those schools as a tie, and the algorithm could just send them to the school with less demand, it seems to me that would generate more happy matches faster -- as well as sparing indecisive parents the agony of making up their minds, and sparing the rest of us the "embarrassment of riches" posts. (People do this with traditional schools all the time, btw. "Oh, we're looking for something in Lafayette or Janney." "Anywhere in Whitman." Etc. All else equal, they'll wind up in the school with less demand because the houses there cost less.)[/quote]
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