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[quote=Anonymous][quote=dcmom]I am PP who talked extensively to the DME about this.

The tracking number is based I believe on when you initially registered for my school DC. It is not your lottery number. But PP is correct--all applicants for one grade are sorted in order and that order is used for all schools. So, say there are 10,000 students applying for PK3; the students' tracking numbers are randomly ordered, and that random ordering--what people here are referring to as a single lottery number--is used for each process in the iteration. That number is used to break ties among people with the same level of preference. So if I have a sibling attend a charter school, then my applicant will get in over all other applicants who don't have a sibling. However, if there are more applicants with siblings than there are spots, then the random lottery number will be the tiebreaker, and those with the best lottery numbers get in. Everyone else is waitlisted in the order of the random lottery number.

Not everyone applies to all schools, and you are dropped from waitlists of schools you rank as less desirable from the school you get into, so your actual position on waitlists will vary based on whether you qualify for a preference category (in-boundary for PK3/4, proximity, sibling, founder for charter, etc.), who else applied to the school, and where the other applicants get in.

Remember, the tracking number is not the same as your lottery number. Just because you are # 20,000 doesn't mean you are #20,000 in the PK3 lottery. The computer will create the lottery order randomly after the lottery application closes. [/quote]

Thank you for the most comprehensive, well-written explanation of the lottery number process that I've yet seen on DCUM. [/quote]

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