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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, they did the lottery live on MS Teams.  I watched the whole thing.  Yes, it only showed the numbers of the kids who won, not the names, but there will be a clear paper trail, it would be simple to audit after the fact.  The type of shenanigans you are implying would require a high level of fraud, with many people “in on it.”  I know it is disappointing when your kid doesn’t get in, but the lottery is not rigged.[/quote]

I have participated in the lottery and yeah there is some manual intervention. It happened 2 years ago and they had tried to hide the fact they had 2 copies of lists in the system - one created by the system from parents who registered and then one they created manually in the system.  it became apparent and people started commenting. I bet someone could dig up a thread here. It probably had to do with needing to retain some seats that they could assign for whatever reason - maybe administrative transfer? [/quote]

There is no way to administrative transfer to hb.  It is not an option on the website so only some direct back door deal is possible to get in.

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Administrative transfers are always case by case, not public, usually because of some specific problem a child is having. Often these kids are in a bad place and the circumstances are private.

This is the case for all admin transfer to any school in APS. I highly doubt they let a lot of kids into HB as admin transfers because if they did, you'd see it in the numbers. 
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OMG seriously ? Ok so they aren’t admin transfers they come from somewhere. My point is it is not a true lottery in the sense that all open seats are included in the lottery. They hold back a certain number of seats and fill them somehow. Again they made mistakes the first year they used the new online platform and revealed by accident that it was a manual and not an automatic process. I mean it doesn’t tell you something that you joined a call so they could reveal the numbers picked??? How did that make sense to you? The program they use is fully capable of producing a randomized list with zero intervention. Basically pick a closing date and time and then a time for the lottery process to run after that - say 1 min, or maybe an hour, whatever. Takes the program no more than a couple minutes and the results are available. No human interaction needed. But they don’t do that do they? Which is actually weird because having the computer perform the lottery eliminates the idea that a person interferes with the results. [/quote]

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