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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Huh. This doesn’t line up with my results in a weird way.

My K matched at John Lewis (our #5 choice). Her brother was waitlisted there with waitlist #1 for 1st grade (and he matched with our #6 choice). Both kids’ lists were exactly the same.

I assumed this was because Lewis either didn’t offer any seats for 1st grade or offered one or two and they got taken by siblings. Fine.

But looking at this dashboard, Lewis took FIVE kids for 1st grade, four of whom were no preference. How on earth did four kids with no preference match when my kid, whose results clearly show a preference of “Sibling Offered” wasn’t offered a seat?

I was under them impression that this could only happen if my kid had matched to a school he ranked higher (then he’d be #1 on the waitlist where his sister matched). But that’s not the case - he matched with our #6 school.

Anyone have any idea how this could have happened? This is messing with my whole understanding of how the lottery works. [/quote]

This doesn’t align with my understanding of the lottery either. [/quote]

Poster above said it most simply...think of sibling offered as a priority that is only applied after match day. Sibling attending, IB at time of application, etc. all apply before the match.[/quote]

If this were true, most Latin twins sets would have one kid getting matched and the other kid having a single digit waitlist number. But it was my understanding that in most case with Latin, if one twin is matched, they both were. Any Latin twin families (or people who know twins) want to speak to that? Is that what your experience was (this year or previous years)? The chances of BOTH twins matching of their own accord and not getting in via sibling offered preference is very, very low. [/quote]

I'm the person that's in this situation - just to add on that I called MSDC and spoke to a very nice woman who did not know the answer. The data team is going to call me back. [/quote]

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