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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If they did this, then there would be trades possible where I get into A but prefer B and you get into B but prefer A. The way it works now, everyone gets into the highest choice school possible. [/quote]

Everyone would still get into their highest choice possible, because once the computer does the individual school lotteries it reconciles the bigger list, dropping people off of any matched slot or waitlist slot lower than their highest accepted slot.  It would still give everyone the highest choice they got into, but not damn you with one single number for all 12.[/quote]

It would not maximize the number of people who got into high-ranked choices. I might really want Mandarin immersion and put YY first (assuming it is in the common lottery), and have Cap City as, say, my 8th choice. But through separate lotteries, I get into CC but not YY. Someone else gets into YY and not CC. We can't trade spots. Instead, I go to CC and they go to YY, and we both could have crappy waitlist numbers at the schools we prefer.

The algorithm my school dc uses is the best one. Even if it entered you into 12 separate lotteries, that would not change the # of seats available at every school, so the outcome would be the same in terms of # of seats available--only it would be much worse at getting people into the schools that they prefer.

I say this ad someone who had an awful lottery draw and was almost the last PK3 # on the MV waitlist, my first choice. If it were not for IB preference at an unpopular school, I would have been shut out. The really problem is that there are not enough good seats to meet demand. No lottery can change that.[/quote]

It's too late at night for me to write anything long.  Suffice to say, the individual 12 lotteries-within-one-common-lottery that I was describing would still have another step after the individual school lotteries, so no, if person A wanted YY but got IT and person B wanted IT but got YY, there would be more trading/exchanges based on applicant ranking of schools that the people who get YY really wanted YY, and the people who got IT really wanted IT.[/quote]

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