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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's interesting--one of the DC council members posted about the lottery results.  A couple people appear to have a good understanding, but several others commented angrily about their results, even posting screen shots of their results.  Many are for popular schools with few slots available (Brent, Janney, HRCS, etc.).  Makes me realize how many people don't understand the lottery process.

Does MySchoolDC offer any tips or strategies these days, for families who are interested in maximizing chances of matching?  Or do they simply tell families to list schools in the order of their true choice?[/quote]

The latter[/quote]

I honestly have no clue how to maximize my chances.  I really struggled w/ prioritizing my choices and ultimately matched w/ first choice.  But I didn’t use any particular strategy.  Simply listed in order of preference.  Would be interested in hearing specific strategies.[/quote]

I'm the OP that raised the question.  I was mostly thinking about the importance of including safety schools if you want to match somewhere, how to determine which schools may qualify as safeties based on last year's waitlists, etc.[/quote]

Absent other circumstances such as an older sibling, OP, the safest school you can pick is your in-boundary school. The instruction is to rank in order of your true preference, because the risk is that if you rank a safety school above a more preferred school and are admitted, you will not even be placed on the waiting list for your most desired school. That removes any chance of you getting off that wait list. There is no way to game the system other than to include schools where something about your family makes it more likely that you will get in.[/quote]

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