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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does Walls specify who they accept and who they waitlist, or do they simply accept, reject and throw all accepted into the lottery?[/quote]

My understanding is top 170 scoring students (after the interview) are accepted; remaining students are placed on waitlist in lottery order.[/quote]

All interviewed students are ranked and ordered. Top 150 (or 145, or whatever the number it is this year) are offered spots and then they go through the waitlist in that order. The only time the lottery comes into play is to determine preference amongst other schools, so that if one put Banneker above Walls and were going to be offered both, they would "match" at Banneker and not Walls.[/quote]

Not exactly....the top 170 interviewed kids are offered spots but they need to figure out how to rank the waitlist.  For that, they need to use a lottery (not the whole DCPS one) to assign numbers to "tied" kids.  So, if the top 170 kids all received scores of 36 but then 20 kids scored scores of 35, they need to randomly assign them to waitlist positions 1-20.  If 20 kids received scores of 35, they will be randomly assigned waitlist positions 21-40 (and so on).

To be clear, this is how it works in theory...in practice, who the hell knows.  For example, what happens if 200 kids get scores of 36?  Then all 200 kids would need to be put in the lottery for the 170 spots and 30 would be given waitlists 1-30.  [/quote]

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