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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Or alternately, you could read the FAQ:
http://www.myschooldc.org/faq/
http://www.myschooldc.org/getting-started/what-do-all-these-terms-mean/

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But that FAQ doesn't address the basic single question underlying most of this debate: once all the applications are in, will the computer somehow find and consider all the applicants with sib/IB preference first and match them, then go to everyone with no preference and look at their ranking?  [Because, say what you will, but one think that Common Lottery staff are ADAMANT about is that the computer will consider how applicants rank schools.  The computer will NOT only look at your random lottery number in doing its "matching"].

Also, here's an example of how the FAQ kinda doesn't make sense:

What is the order of the preferences in the lottery?

[b]Each public charter school can set its own order for preferences[/b]. For all DCPS schools except dual-language schools, the order is:

1.In-boundary with a sibling already enrolled at the school (PK3 and PK4 only)
2.In-boundary with a sibling who is applying at the same time and is matched to the school (PK3 and PK4 only)
3.In-boundary (PK3 and PK4 only)
4.Out-of-boundary with a sibling already enrolled at the school
5.Out-of-boundary with a sibling who is applying at the same time and is matched to the school
6.Out-of-boundary with proximity
7.No preference
For DCPS dual-language schools only, the order changes for PK3 and PK4 applicants. For these applicants, all sibling preferences (including out-of-boundary with sibling enrolled and sibling matched) come before the in-boundary preference.

[See bolded above] If each charter can set its own order for preference, how does that work in a single electronic lottery???  Is the computer programmed to somehow consider sibling and founder preference for one school, but only sibling for another?  Do any of the charters give proximity preference?  That just sounds wacky and unlikely that charters are individualizing their preferences and that that's all in the algorithm.

The FAQ is important, but without a statement about how a child's school ranking is considered vs. how sib/IB preference is considered, in what order, and when in the process... it doesn't answer the questions asked here.[/quote]

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