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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can someone post a link to the lottery procedure?  Is there any significance to the order other than that you will not be placed on the waitlist of schools you ranked below the school where you got in?

For example, is the lottery run for each school with all the people who put it as #1, with the losers being placed on the waitlist, and then it's run again with people who placed it at #2 who haven't gotten in anywhere else starting at #101 on the waitlist, etc.?[/quote]

That's a logical question, but the answer is no.  The ranking does not impact the [i]weighting [/i]of a choice -- only the priorities (IB, sib, proximity, etc) impact the weighting and the rest is randomly selected. If you are inbounds for a school and rank it last your choice will have the same weight as someone IB who ranks it first.  Every entrant with your priority will be randomly selected and slotted (followed by each priority group with OOB no preference last).  DCPS will review each slotted seat and [i]drop [/i]all of the lower ranked schools from the list (not waitlist, but drop).  The difference involves the higher choices.  The IB entrant who ranks it first and gains a space will be slotted in that IB.  The IB who ranks it 6th would be slotted initially (though not notified) but only be offered a seat if none of the higher 1-5 choices gain a set.  If any other selection gets a seat, the #6 IB would be dropped from the IB school and removed from the waitlist.

In other words, if you get a high enough lottery slot for a seat IB but also gain a high enough lottery slot for a seat at a higher ranked choice you'll probably never know if you would have gained the IB seat or not -- you'll just get slotted at the highest ranked place.[/quote]

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