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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Or I should state - your ranking doesn't have an effect on your placement.  It has an effect in that they go down  the list so your first school is the first to give a seat if available, but your ranking DOES NOT INCREASE YOUR PROBABILITY OF GAINING A SEAT. [/quote]

It most certainly does.  You will not steal a seat from a higher preferenced child if that match is more equitable for both parties.  That's the whole point of deferred placement!  Youre given a seat but it can be taken away and given to someone else if the algorithm deems it as a better match - and that match takes into account both child's assigned preferences, whether they are location based, merit based or sibling based.[/quote]

The problem with stating it this way is that it seems to allow for gaming of the system still.  If, after preferences are taken into account, a student is geographically closer to a school than another student and has ranked it higher, the algorithm WILL NOT take the seat away from the student who is further away and has ranked it lower.

If it were the case that the rankings and the geography will ne taken into account by the algorithm (AFTER preference is accounted for) then there WOULD be an incentive to rank a desirable neighborhood school higher than a desirable charter across town on your list and there IS NOT an incentive to do that.  [/quote]

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