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[quote=Anonymous][quote=1SWMom][quote=Anonymous]Does anyone know how to find out what the overall lottery number was and whether that number was high or low???[/quote]
You will never know! It will eat you alive thinking about it! Let it go, lol[/quote]

I mean, this is not totally true. You'll never know your exact lottery draw, but pretty much every year we've done the lottery, we've ultimately figured out generally where we landed. I mean, impossible to even guess at an exact number because even if you knew how many kids entered the lottery for that grade, it's not like every single kid ranks the same schools, plus preferences muck up everything, so who knows. But we know we had a very bad number for PK3 (huge waitlist numbers, in the 300s for everything except our IB which was guaranteed, even mediocre programs that go deep into the waitlist), a medium good number for PK4 (made it into the top 10 for multiple highly sought after programs but didn't get in anywhere), and a very good number for K (didn't get in anywhere in the lottery but wound up getting three offers at hard to get into schools of the waitlist thanks to expanded K rosters despite no preferences). We've never scored a truly great number, but also maybe our K year was a great number and we wound up waitlisted due to sibling preference.

Point is, eventually you start to figure out what good and bad numbers look like and can tell by looking at a lottery results list where you shook out generally. And that's good enough. I actually think knowing your exact number would be torment because it would make someone like me look at all the waitlist data for all the schools we DIDN'T lottery for that maybe be didn't like quite as much or were a longer commute but maybe with our lottery number might have gotten into and had a better year... I don't really need that level of second guessing in my life![/quote]

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