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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nope, you're still not getting it. The only way they're doing a better job of "matching" students is because they're removing your name from the applicant pools at the schools you ranked lower than where you got in. This could conceivably really help some people, so that is why they are calling it "improved matching." There is no weighting, other than the preferences for siblings and IB. This is why they keep telling you to put them in the order in which you would like to go. You're not hurting your chances of getting into your third choice by ranking your true number one. However, it is smart to have your safety schools, since you really do not want to have to into the second chance lottery.[/quote]

There is no point in arguing with you, you either refuse to understand it or you are trying purposefully to mislead people.  You acknowledge weighting for sibs and IB (which only applies for PS/PK), but you are denying that you are also weighted on your ranking.  That makes you half right, HALF WRONG.

Everyone else, feel free not to take my or this PPs word for this and call yourself.  I'm trusting what 3 different common lottery staff told me about this exact question over this anonymous person who, frankly, sounds invested in posting wrong info.  Especially since they haven't said where they are getting official word that the ranking doesn't get weighted.

Feel free not to take my word for it either, but please, do NOT believe this person, because the lottery folks are saying rankings will be weighted, along with preferences.  Period.  
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