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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is anyone else really upset and pissed at the unfairness of the lottery?

This is the third year we've been shut out.  We have a poor IB choice.  Private school isn't an option.  Our child cannot continue where she is.  And yet, friends of ours whose plan was to go private until K and then go to their IB JKLM elementary got into one of the top charter schools.

Sure, I was happy for them at first, but it starts to grate when you hear the gloating and the bragging and you know that they had other options that were fantastic and you have none and were shut out AGAIN.[/quote]

I totally understand! As days go on, I am slowly finding out where our friends have gotten in. Most of them I know for a fact did not do much research, did not go to any open houses and some have missed the lottery deadline. One of them got matched at their #2 choice and waitlististed for their #1 choice at WL #20! (we have the same #1 choice and got 293!!). While us who spent a lot of time doing researchh, went to open hourses, looked at school numbers, etc etc, got shut out!! It makes me mad :(. [b]Perhaps if I did not do any research at all and did not make any intelligent choice, I would've gotten in somewhere![/b] [/quote]

Yes, magical thinking is what makes you win the lottery.[/quote]

I'll tell you what works - put a humungous deposit down for a private school that you loose in its entirety.  Now that we are in, however, I really wonder how we thought we could afford that tuition. . .  Soem of the happy few you knwo may be in thsi situation.  They can't afford private schools but were going to do it at a cost that wasn't quite clear to them when they signed up (we likely would have gone into credit card debt for groceries).[/quote]

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