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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Waitlisted everywhere, best number is 130 worst is 286.  Doubt we will get off the waitlist, guess we are going private.  Good luck everyone! [/quote]

Same here! Wait listed everywhere for my twins.  Now trying to decide on private. Smh[/quote]

Since there is no sibling preference, we didn't even bother to try.  The odds of getting two slots in the same school were astronomical, so I didn't think it was worth it.  We made other plans.  The PG lottery system is virtually impossible for twins.[/quote]

Not true. I know of a couple twins and a set of triplets who got in.[/quote]

Agree.  The two sets of twins I know that did the lottery last year got consecutive numbers on the waitlist (#13 and #14, #42 and #43), and a set of twins in my kid's school both got in 2 years ago.  I'm sure there are many more, but I'm only speaking for twins I personally know.  [/quote]

That speaks to my theory that you can register the twins as ONE unit in the lottery and if they get in they both get in... but I wasn't able to find it in writing anywhere online.   I could swear I read it somewhere though.

As I said, you children have half the chance of winning this way (individually) because you are entering 2 kids only 1 time.  But if they do get in both get in.[/quote]

I don't think that's the case though. Each child has their own school ID number and they enter the lottery based on the student ID number. I think you actually have a greater chance of getting in because if one child gets in, [b]the second child automatically gets the following number.[/b] On the lottery result roster, there are no double entries for place. Each place on the waitlist has a discete ID number. [/quote]

If what I bolded were true, yes, twins would definitely have double the chance of getting in!

But I can't find that procedure written anywhere online.

I SWEAR I read online that there was a certain procedure for twins, where you just registered one time for both twins... but maybe I imagined it.  (Or they gave you a choice to enter each one individually, but there was no sibling preference if one got in and the other did not.)[/quote]

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