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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Different poster, but PP your understanding of the common lottery is wrong.  It would be so much better if it worked through #1 picks first; but it doesn't.  It takes the person with random lottery #0001 or however many there were, and taking preference groups into consideration (siblings and IB where applicable) it works through all of that #0001 person's list to match them, and then moves onto #0002.  Person #9999 pretty much has zero chance in Hades getting matched anywhere on their list of 12 unless they apply to a school that never has a waiting list.  If it went through #1 rankings first, that would be much fairer, but person #0050 who ranks Yu Ying 11th has a better chance of getting in than person #0600 who ranks Yu Ying #1.

If they figure out how to have the algorithm consider the parent's ranking of schools as well as random lottery number and preference, that would be a great improvement.[/quote]

Agree with your understanding of how the lottery works, but disagree that having it randomly choose among people who ranked a school #1 is a better outcome. That would give people an incentive to strategically rank schools.[/quote]

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