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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The main thing EVERY family doing the common lottery this year needs to understand is this:

Research your choices and make sure our #1 is really the school you would be happiest with if you got in.  You ranking it #1 will affect both your chances of actually getting any available lottery slots, as well as your position on the waitlist.  And rank in your true rank order.

Can we all at least agree that that is the approach families should take to ranking their 12 choices?[/quote]

I am the PP who said that if the Denver system is adopted, there is a real incentive for families not to rank in the true rank order and instead to think strategically about what schools should be listed early on.[/quote]

I have been researching this a lot (am the one who posted the links from Denver and New Orleans- found them on the site of the non-profit that's running this).  I vaguely remember reading somewhere that if your first choices are full, say your top 3, your 4th choice is considered your number 1 choice now, because you still haven't been matched.  So then you will be equivalent with those who ranked that school number 1.  But can't remember where I saw that, and can't find it now.  But it would make sense to prevent trying to game the system.  Everything I have read says that these models prevent gaming, which I take to be pretty much gospel because these researchers are experts on game theory, and many of the papers specifically discuss these issues.[/quote]

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