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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All of the 42 kids who got matched to Latin 2 for 5th must have ranked it above Basis. Then there were probably a bunch of kids with a little bit worse lottery numbers who matched to Basis even though they ranked Latin 2 higher[/quote]

You don't understand how the lottery works!  [/quote]

How so? I have an excellent understanding of how the lottery works. That "must" is based on observed results (number of slots available at the two schools this year and my own kid's and their friend's waitlist numbers). Any kids who got into the Cooper campus would have matched with Basis if they had ranked it higher. And since Basis offered so many more slots, there are kids who ended up matching with Basis even if they ranked Cooper higher.[/quote]

You assume that every kid who matched at either Latin II or Basis had both schools on their lists.  That's simply not the case. It is possible that people listed Basis and not Latin II, matched at Basis thereby filling Basis' slots. People who listed both would then have matched at Latin II and been WL at Basis. This is even more possible given that although there were more slots at Basis, 46 of those slots when to sibs/staff so that the delta between no preference slots at Basis and Latin II was not that far off.

You wanted an observed result, so here's mine. We did not include Latin II but did list Basis...and matched.   [/quote]

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