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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Many people who rank a less popular school #1 would not match there if they draw a poor common lotto # because those who draw a better number, but don't have it ranked #1 would be waitlisted (or get-in) before them. [/quote]

This is what happens now. We drew a crap number this year. Someone else who drew a better number got matched with our #1 choice, even though they ranked it #10. So we're not going to a school we really want and neither are they.

I'm with you, OP! After all the sibling, in-boundary, etc preferences, the WL would be ranked by preference. So everyone who ranked it #1 would get in or get on the WL in the order of their lottery number, then once you're through the #1s, all the #2s rank in order of their lottery number, then #3s, etc. Makes sense to me. Not sure how this would result in more gaming the system than we currently have -- if people are already lotterying for schools where they have a &lt;5% chance of getting in, you're &quot;wasting&quot; that spot on your list just as much as you would under this system.[/quote]

It would be more gaming of the system because in practice, you'd have to consider the odds of there being any spots at a school before you ranked it -- and thus, ranking schools in some order other than the order in which you'd like to attend them, period. Otherwise you'd be burning your #1 preference on, for instance, some HRCS that only offers up 20 spots for PK3 after siblings are admitted, or some WOTP DCPS school that takes very few out of bounds students, so maybe you should actually rank some other school where you can possibly get in #1.[/quote]

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