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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Having come away with a poor lottery draw, I would recommend spending more time researching "safety" schools.  I spent a lot of time going to open houses of the most sought-after charter schools, and spent less time researching schools that were less popular but traditionally have more slots available.  In retrospect, I think I could have spent more time visiting those schools to get a sense of each of them individually and done more online research for the schools that everyone seems to vie for but have very low odds of getting in to.  [/quote]

There are no safety schools. It doesn't make a difference if you ranked those schools first over a HRCS, you will still get the same result (ie pray you get a high lottery number). We ranked Lee 5 this go around and would have had the same number on the wait list if we ranked it #1. Our lesson learned was don't spend so much time at open houses, rank the schools that you would like to send your DC to and in that order w/o thinking how you can game the system by ranking a "safety" higher up, have 12 choices and make your IB school #12 (unless that is really your #1)...because your only advantage and regardless of of your ranking.[/quote]

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