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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There’s a literal lottery, a metaphorical lottery, and the priority-match system.

The priority-match system, which is operated by MySchool, is sometimes called a lottery, but does not necessarily include any random element. It’s just the centralized mechanism for matching students to the top-ranked school that has a seat available for them. Still, comments like “lottery results are out tonight!” will be relevant to kids who applied to Walls.

There’s a literal lottery element in the Walls process, but it’s small: if two or more kids apply to Walls, interview, and receive the exact same overall score in the admissions process, the lottery determines the precise order in which those kids will be admitted/waitlisted.

Finally there’s a metaphorical lottery, in that some people, after seeing who is admitted and who not admitted to Walls, walk away feeling that the admissions process is so random as to be somewhat akin to a lottery. [/quote]

OP here. Thank you, this explanation makes a lot of sense![/quote]

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