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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Think I'm finally getting this, while 1:30 is correct in that ranking matters, what REALLY matters is the luck of your draw.  If you're one of the first picks, you get in to one of your top choices.  If you're one of the last picked, you're wait listed everywhere, possibly in the 100s and even your "safety" may be getting full by then...

My question now is, what of you select a school that you're OOB at and have no preference as your #1 choice, and you get picked third in the lottery 5th.  Will you be placed in the school until a child WITH preference is drawn (say at #10) and then you'll be kicked down your own list?

If this is the case, even if I'm drawn early, yet all of my top choices are likely to be filled by students with preference have I, so-to-speak, squandered an opportunity to guarantee myself a spot at a school that might have more preference-free slots?  Because as it may take 500 draws to fill up my top 7 schools, but he time I get to number 8, isn't it now full?[/quote]

I think of it this way. You have the same chance of getting in to school X if you place it as your only choice, or at the bottom of your list (assuming you don't get any of your higher picks). In terms of mechanics, it will be a two step process. First they conduct the lottery (As you say it's the luck of that draw that matters). Then they feed the lottery numbers and preferences into a computer program which figures out where you get in / are wait listed.

You have not "squandered an opportunity to guarantee myself a spot at a school that might have more preference-free slots?  Because as it may take 500 draws to fill up my top 7 schools, but he time I get to number 8, isn't it now full?" - because the available seats at the school you listed at 8 are filled according the lottery numbers - giving preference to IB, kids with siblings etc. and eliminating kids with higher lottery numbers who have already been allocated a spot - but without other reference the rank order people gave the school on their list. It's a simple concept but proving quite difficult to explain.[/quote]

This finally did it for me!!!!  Thank you!  [/quote]

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