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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
The schools don't "create tiebreakers." Every participant is given one lottery number for the entire process. Spots at each school are given out first by order of preference, then by lottery number.

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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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Random selection comes into play within the preferences.  That random selection is based on the randomness assigned by the algorithm.  Again, as I said above, the schools have nothing to do with this.  It's all the folks running the lottery according to that nobel prize winning method mentioned in the Washington Post article.[/quote]

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