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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]

it's right here on the myschooldc.org site
http://www.myschooldc.org/faq/#common-3

[quote][b]How does the My School DC common lottery work?[/b]
Student-school matches are based on the number of spaces at each school; sibling, proximity, and other preferences; and each student’s choices. (Through the My School DC common lottery, the six DCPS specialized high schools admit students based on specific criteria.)
 
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. [b][i][u]Then, random selection decides which other students will be offered spaces.[/u][/i][/b]
 
Students will be matched with no more than one school. [b][i][u]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.[/u][/i][/b][/quote]

Look at the two bold, italics and underlined sentences above.  Random selection (lottery number) is part of the school ranking the student.  Your ranking and the schools rankings collide.  That's it.  [b]Your ranking has nothing to do with any other student in the lottery.[/b]  Your ranking only determines which slots are still open under your application.  If you are selected for your first rank then you're other selections are ignored unless you lose your first ranked solution (this is possible because this lottery is running a "deferred acceptance" model.  If you lose your first ranking then your rankings below that are open again for consideration.  This is when you can take away another child's first ranking (if you're ranking is #2 and theirs is #1 yet you have a better preference/lottery number you get that seat).  This is how this entire algorithm works.

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