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Show me where it is clearly stated that random lottery number trumps student's ranking of the school and, where all else is equal except the student's rank of the school, a higher random lottery number trumps student's ranking of school?

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It's not clearly stated because there isn't anything at all about rank in the FAQ. Let me ask this back: If rank were so important -- more important than lottery number -- why did they leave it out of the FAQ?[/quote]

I have no idea why they left it out.  I only know what the admissions people at the 2 schools I'm most interested in told me and the person representing the lottery at the fair I went to said.  They clearly, unequivically said "Rank matters and a student with everything else the same but with who ranked the school lower would lose to a student who ranked it higher".

For me, that's all I need to know, and I'm acting on that regardless of what anonymous people on the internet say.  But I'm interested in the sources people are using to assert so strongly that random lottery number trumps rank.

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Very strange.  When I asked the Schools DC people at the ward 5 school fair, they did not tell me that.  They stressed that it was important to put your true first choice in the #1 slot and that your chances of getting in to each school were independent of each other or rank.[/quote]

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