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Thank you so much, everyone! This is all very helpful, and I appreciate the advice to not over-think it (which I'm at high-risk for doing). Also totally happy to hear from any boosters (or detractors) and personal experiences at these schools.

I am planning to go to EDfest this weekend, I know people have mixed reviews but my mother, who is a retired elementary school teacher from an urban public school system, will be in town and wants to help. Do they have people there who can answer some questions specifically on how the lottery works? I've read a few conflicting things, mainly on how to do the ranking if you have some long-shot schools on your list. I know you can't "game" the system, but wasn't sure if there's really a up/downside to listing schools where you're unlikely to get in. I've seen advice either way -- don't bother, or rank them high just on the off-chance there's a miracle[/quote]

The best advice anyone can give you is to rank your schools by your true preference order.  That is, rank them in the order of where you would enroll your kids if you had 100% free choice.  When you match at a school, you stay on the waitlist of those schools ranked higher and are dropped from those ranked lower so don't put a longshot school high if you prefer somewhere else.  If there are some long/no shot schools that you would drop all options to attend and you don't have a full list of 12, there is zero harm in putting them there.

We actually got into our longshot school post-covid.  It happens.  But don't pin your hope on it and don't forgo other desirable options, especially for PK.[/quote]

PP here- Obviously the caveat that I forgot to add to this advice is not to make a list of all longshots!  You seem to have done your homework enough not to need that instruction, though.[/quote]

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