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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]my understanding (from a conversation with myschools) but I may have misunderstood, is that if you get into school #5 you will be waitlisted at schools #1-#4 and you will NOT be waitlisted at schools #6-#12 [/quote]

NP here.  This is my understanding as well.  I don't know if your ranking for a school gives you greater consideration or preference, however.  It's a straight lottery for each school, with the same preferences (sibling, proximity), but this system aims to lower overall waitlist numbers by dropping you from every school that's lower in your ranking.

Adding a preference for your ranking would complicate things a bit too much, I believe.[/quote]

No, the contrary is true in a system where there is far more demand for a smaller number of schools than there is slots.  [b]Weighting your ranking as a factor in how lottery numbers are assigned creates exactly the incentive that has been discussed for researching ahead of time and applying to your true first choice schools, because if it's not reallly your first choice (or not enough of a choice for you to risk getting in and then losing out on all the schools you ranked after it), why is it fair for you to get that slot over someone for whom it really IS their first choice?[/b]And yes, I know there is much about this system that seems unfair.  But with the limited number of lottery slots at the most popular schools, the only way you can say you're "improving the matching between families who really want the school and the school" and the only way it can matter how you rank the schools is if you give people who rank a particular school #1 an advantage in the lottery over everyone who ranked it 2 and lower.  Then you move to thos who ranked it 2nd, and so on.  That's the only way that "matching" and ranking can really have an impact in connecting a family who is prioritizing that school over the family who is ambivalent or doens't know what other school to put down.[/quote]

I disagree with the bolded statement. I think if the Denver system is adopted, I'll have a real incentive to reorder my preferences to put schools in the 1-3 slots that are likely to have seats for non-IB, Non-sibs. Otherwise, I will be wasting my true #1 spot (for a popular charter, which will have few seats available). [/quote]

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