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[quote=Anonymous]I just don't see how it would work fairly pp (and I'm no statistician either.)  What you'd be introducing under the "individual lotteries" scenario would be an element whereby your chances of admittance would possibly be weighted by your ranking of the school.  So, you'd be introducing a way "to game" the system -- a preference would be placed on how YOU ranked the school.

By making something even slightly "gameable" it unfairly weights the process in favor of the people who have the capacity to figure it out (or pay someone to do it for them.)

The way the lottery worked last year was at least fair.  It was entirely random, you were randomly awarded or randomly screwed, but it was random.  Yes, someone who ranked the school #6 that you ranked #1 got into it and you got waitlisted, but that's because he got lucky and you didn't.  He didn't get into his 1-5 because other people were luckier than him, and he's luckier than you.  And this is the only way to truly keep it "fair."

Otherwise, I can guarantee a pop-up industry of consultants charging $500 for rankings overnight.

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