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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hi, I'm the PP you're responding to.  I think there's actually better news than this - if you keep reading the conversation past this post, it sounds like actually, even if the computer randomly assigns you #312 for the lottery and that stays your lottery number, you are not in fact #312 and everyone between #1-#311 has a better shot than  you.  From what I'm reading above, that is NOT how it will work.

If I understand the above, even if your random assigned number is #312, it's possible you could be #2 on the waitlist for your 1st or 2nd choice school and the person with random lottery #3 could end up #235 on a waitlist.  It sounds like for each school, the computer looks at preference groups (i.e. everyone with sibling preference, or everyone with no preference at all) and within that preference group, for that school, does a random shuffle to establish the slots and waitlist.  So no matter what your assigned lottery number (i.e. 312), you could end up #4 ont he waitlist for one school, number 87 on the waitlist for another school, and #452 for a 3rd school.

So if what's said above is true, actually your randomly assigned number does NOT condemn you to unifrom suckiness or awesomeness.  It's a different shuffle for each school, even though your random number stays the same.[/quote]

I don't think so. The initial post with the quotes from the myschooldc people says that when comparing two students for the same school, first they look at preference and second they look at the randomly assigned number.  I haven't seen any "official" explanation that mentions reshuffling these randomly assigned numbers over again at every school. Reshuffling the numbers at every school is really the same as having separate lotteries. I don't think that is what is happening here.[/quote]

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