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[quote=Anonymous][quote]After tons of research, our number was pretty bad, and we ended up at our IB school, which I really never thought I'd send my daughter to, but considering how close it is, the moderate buzz (potentially one of those over-hyped schools), and the fact that a neighbor-friend is also sending their kid, we're going. [b]This leads me to wonder whether one of the side goals of the common lottery was to get people applying for schools they never would have considered otherwise.[/b] I even *visited* public schools I never would have even known about, had it not been for my desire to find the best possible public school. So -- we'll see how it goes. Well, I hope.[/quote]

I really do believe that was the [i]primary [/i]objective.  Everyone was applying to the same schools and getting these astronomically high wait list numbers and then walking away from the whole thing when they didn't get what they wanted.  Meanwhile, less popular schools were leaving seats unfilled and consequently losing much-needed funding.

Like I said above, we had maybe one discussion in our house about school choices when applying through the old system. I visited maybe 2 of the schools and went by word of mouth for the rest because it was really a process of knocking on all doors and seeing which one would open.  We didn't get any good wait list numbers that year, so I stopped thinking about it once the lottery was over, but I can't imagine the stress of waiting all summer and into the school year to see how things would shake out.[/quote]

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