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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When did strategy become akin to Satan worship?  Ooooh, no, can't do that, it'll lead to gaming.  [i]Shudder[/i].  Oh, how terrible!  Wake up people.  The whole charter system is gaming.  We're gaming people who don't have the ability, education, or access to research or apply to charter schools.

A variation on the system proposed by the OP that assigns a weight to one's ranking of 12 schools (in addition to the random lottery number) would be quite workable, and would provide better, fairer outcomes, earlier in the process.[/quote]

There is strategy in the current system: rank the schools in the order you want to attend, because that will give you the best chance.

Under OP's plan you might not rank your top pick first because you heard that all but 4 slots are going to siblings and you're not optimistic enough to think you'll be among the first four draws who ranked X school #1.

Then that school expands in August but sucks to be you as you ranked a safety school #1.[/quote]

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