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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Yes, your #4 becomes your #1 if you strike out at 1-3, but the fact that you didn't rank your #4 school as #1 in the first place makes someone who actually ranked it #1 more likely to get it once the computer is sorting among your preference group for that school. [b]You do not look like a #1 choice just because you're waitlisted at your 1-3 by the time the computer is considering you for your #4 school as compared to others for whom it was always #1.[/b][/quote]

This is an example of someone on the previous page who is mistating what the parent rank accomplishes.  That bold sentence is not at all true.  How other people rank the school has nothing to do with your acceptance.  It has to do with how the school ranked you and others who applied to it.  The parent ranking only comes into play when you get an acceptance at more than one school.  You will only be accepted at one school and it determines that based on the highest ranking you provided.  Once you are accepted to a school you will only be removed from it if someone with a [b]HIGHER PREFERENCE (ie SIBLING &gt; PROXIMITY &gt; NO PREFERENCE)[/b] or someone with the [b]same preference but a better lottery number[/b] (which technically wouldn't happen because assignments are done by lottery number).[/quote]

To everyone reading this, if believing one way or the other in any way changes how you rank, please, please, call the Common Lottery.  That is the only explanation of whether a parent's ranking ever enters the equation (beyond what order the computer tries to fill your requests) you should trust.  I say the bold sentence is true, the PP above says it's not... if which one you believe affects the way you rank, do not believe either.  Go to the sources, either your #1 school or most relevant the Common Lottery staff themselves.[/quote]

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