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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hey, how about we just look at the FAQ on the MySchoolDC site!

http://www.myschooldc.org/faq/#common-3

How does the My School DC common lottery work?
Student-school matches are based on the number of spaces at each school; sibling, proximity, and other preferences; and each student’s choices. (Through the My School DC common lottery, the six DCPS specialized high schools admit students based on specific criteria.)
 
When there are more students than spaces at a school, students who have a preference (such as a sibling preference) will be the first to be offered spaces. Then, random selection decides which other students will be offered spaces.
 
Students will be matched with no more than one school. My School DC will try to match each student with their 1st choice, then their 2nd choice, and so on through the student’s list.

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Oh look, preferences matter![/quote] Preferences matter. Preferences are defined: "Students with a preference at a particular school are offered space at that school before students who don’t have a preference. There are four types of preferences: sibling preference (DCPS and charters), proximity preference (DCPS only), in-boundary preference (DCPS PK3 and PK4 only), and Adams-boundary preference (Oyster-Adams Bilingual School only)." Preferences in this sense have nothing to do with rankings on your lottery list.
Reference: [url]http://www.myschooldc.org/getting-started/what-do-all-these-terms-mean/#pref[/url][/quote]

Which    means    what?   How does this affect how I choose to rank?  Do I now not need to put my true #1 school as #1?  What does you pointing this out mean?  Also, just out of curiosity, where in this 9 pages of comments did anyone say preferences didn't matter?  I see people arguing about which things give you a preference and how the process will handle preferences, but where does anyone say preferences don't matter, as you clearly think someone has said?[/quote]

There is someone posting all day who has been saying that preferences are ignored and only the ranking by the parent/student matters.  Since you have the reading comprehension of a 3 year old I assume that someone is you.[/quote]

Quote one place in this whole thread where anyone says preferences are ignored?  If you can find that quote (as opposed to that ranking is as important as the other preferences, which it's fine if you disagree with but is not the same as saying preferences will be ignored), then you can feel free to insult my reading comprehension.  So where is it stated that preferences will be ignored?[/quote]

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