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What's wrong, afraid to call them youself and confirm that you're full of crap?  Yes, you are, because you know you're full of crap.  The person I spoke to was quite able to explain the algorithm, was not reading off a script, gave examples, and answered my specific "What if...?" questions with ease.  I'll take their accurate, relevant info over your admittedly (because if you had an official, verifiable source you would have posted it by now) not-official musings/misleading.[/quote]

I read your posting of your conversation with the lottery person, and I can see where you misunderstood. There is a difference between weighting and priority. Weighting means you have a better chance. Priority means the person with priority gets it every time over the person without priority. We do not have a weighted system, we have a priority system. IB first priority, sibs second priority, then priority by lottery number.

What the nice person in the lottery office was saying to you is that even if you have a good lottery number, there might be a higher priority person than you who gets the spot. The "might" isn't whether they get the spot, if they exist they get it, the "might" is they might exist.

In my experience DCPS doesn't like to admit that it's a strict priority system, they tend to waffle around that point because it's so depressing for the people who don't have priority.[/quote]

I don't care if I sound like a broken record.  Wrong info on this is too damaging, even though no one should be relying totally on anything said here.

Re: your post, post a verifiable official source for your take on the lottery, or I don't believe it.  I did not misunderstand what I was told, as I asked the specific question re: whether someone with no sibling preference or inbound but who ranked a school #1 could get in over someone with sibling or IB preference but who ranked it #2, and was told yes that is absolutely possible.  There are several variables re: who the computer even looks at first and what the other applicants who are being looked at before/at the same time had re: rankings or preferences.

I won't argue terms "priority" vs. "weighting".  I just know that ranking a school #1 gives you as much of an advantage as having a sibling at the school but ranking it #2... who gets that particular spot depends on who the computer looks at first.  In one pull it could be the #1/no sib who gets it, in another it could be the #2 w/sib who gets it.  But in either pull, #3 with or without sib or IB or not is not getting it unless they are pulled ahead of the others and don't get into their 1 or 2.

If ranking didn't matter or wasn't weighted, it wouldn't give you just as much an advantage as IB or sibling.  And it was explained to me repeatedly as being just as important, giving you the same edge as IB or sibling.  (Although a combo of #1, sib and IB (for PS/PK) will be hard to beat.)[/quote]

Wow.  You are so very wrong.  It's clear to everyone here.  Please call them back, speak to a supervisor and then come back here and take back everything you said.  You don't even understand the difference between priority and weighting.  Here is the list of preferences from the DC lottery website:

1.In-boundary with a sibling already enrolled at the school (PK3 and PK4 only)
2.In-boundary with a sibling who is applying at the same time and is matched to the school (PK3 and PK4 only)
3.In-boundary (PK3 and PK4 only)
4.Out-of-boundary with a sibling already enrolled at the school
5.Out-of-boundary with a sibling who is applying at the same time and is matched to the school
6.Out-of-boundary with proximity
7.No preference
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