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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, sorry that that these wankers have mangled your innocuous thread.

PS.  Hope you've learned to avoid advocating a thing where YY is concerned.  [/quote]

Meh, OPs original assumption that the common lottery ranking takes care of YY's concern about getting parents serious about Chinese isn't really true.  Common lottery computer only looks at your random assigned lottery number for the most part, not how you ranked the school until it gets to you.  Parents who would rank YY #1 but got a random lottery number of 480 would NOT get in ahead of someone who ranked YY #7 but had a 200 random number, unless 200 got to one of their higher ranked choices, which might or might not happen.

We plan to apply next year and we hope they keep a separate lottery.  [/quote]

First of all, you're discounting the fact that not everyone who gets into YY through the separate lottery would choose YY as a first choice. Remember, the line standing is only for the waiting list, so someone could apply online the day before the lottery closed and have just as much chance of getting in as the people who stood out in the cold for 8 hours.

Second of all, I think you are misunderstanding how the lottery works. My understanding is that it looks at people's #1 choices first, and matches as many of those people as possible. In subsequent rounds, the "accepted" kids will only be displaced by students with sibling preference (and in-bounds preference for DCPS) or by people with better numbers. So for any school with few seats, the ones who match are going to be siblings and those who ranked the school highly AND had an excellent number. Someone who had a truly excellent number is not going to match with their number 7 school unless they chose 6 schools with no seats available.[/quote]

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