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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Different poster - no, it makes absolutely NO sense to consider the scenario where one applicant comes in last in EACH of the 12 lotteries.  The odds of that happening are almost zero with the number of people applying.  But if everyone gets only one random number and that's their number for every school... someone has to be very last.  Someone else has to be next to very last.  And neither of them are getting in anywhere remotely popular unless, well unless the school is only kinds popular.  The last numbers are screwed and that is so unfair to those who get the crappier numbers.  And there will be many.  Sucks and seems much less fair.[/quote]

While it may seem counter-intuitive, the lottery folks are right to use a single lottery number. If the each school ran a separate lottery, you might get a high number in a school you liked LEAST and a low number in a school you liked the MOST, and others might have the same situation but for opposite schools, which creates situations that previous posters described where it might be beneficial for you to "trade" with someone else. Using a single lottery number prevents these inefficient matches, and the end result is that more people are matched to their higher-ranked schools using a single lottery number system than would be possible with a multiple lottery number system.[/quote]

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