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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, sorry that that these wankers have mangled your innocuous thread.

PS.  Hope you've learned to avoid advocating a thing where YY is concerned.  [/quote]

Meh, OPs original assumption that the common lottery ranking takes care of YY's concern about getting parents serious about Chinese isn't really true.  Common lottery computer only looks at your random assigned lottery number for the most part, not how you ranked the school until it gets to you.  Parents who would rank YY #1 but got a random lottery number of 480 would NOT get in ahead of someone who ranked YY #7 but had a 200 random number, unless 200 got to one of their higher ranked choices, which might or might not happen.

We plan to apply next year and we hope they keep a separate lottery.  [/quote]

OP here, 
Yes this thread was completely derailed by crazy and became very "Yellow River Elegy" for a while there (look it up). To the poster I quoted above, I think my point still stands but only under the assumption that YY is a top choice school.  Someone with a good lottery number would get their top choice, not their 7th choice, and under my assumption, YY is so attractive that the few seats it offers go to people with very good lottery numbers. I am assuming that YY is as competitive as other top schools and so no one will get in who ranked it #7th. Example: I live in bounds for Brent and need a PK 3 spot. I get a highly competitive lottery number. If I prioritize Brent I get one of the 20 or 30 spots at Brent. If I prioritize YY I get one of the 10 spots at YY.  YY ends up only with families who prioritized it, and no families who applied as a free lottery ticket, got in by chance and are trying it out because they didn't get in anywhere else.

I am advocating this out of self interest. My husband waited outside in the cold for 8+ hours last fall and it looks like we won't be getting in. I don't expect he will be interested in doing that again.

I also think YY staff cannot effectively administer something that has become this high stakes. They are comparing tenths of a second between in person and online applications among parents for whom this means saving hundreds of thousands of dollars in private school tuition. It is a lawsuit waiting to happen. [/quote]

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