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[quote=Anonymous]No. Your system would make it impossible for anyone to get into many schools unless they ranked it #1 and requires people to game the system by not ranking their choices by their true preferences. Think about your example, where you have ranked Mundo Verde your first choice. Mundo Verde admits its siblings, then turns to the 200 people who ranked it number one and starts moving through those names. If you don't get in, the algorithm goes to your second choice school, Yu Ying. Well, Yu ying is full of people who ranked it first, so you're not getting in there. Your third choice was DC Bilingual, but some people figured the odds were too long on MV, so they put DCB first. Your third pick isnt going to get you anywhere at DCB, either. And so on, until you wind up at your in-bounds school or some school that is low-ranked enough that everyone who put it as a first (or second, or third, or fifth) choice actually went through all those applicants.[/quote]
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