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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can any of our algorithm mavens tell us how the sibling preference is applied during the scenario above?[/quote]

Sibling is applied like any other preference.  The kids are pooled and sorted by their lottery number.  [/quote]

There are 2 kinds of siblings -- a sibling already enrolled at a school, and the other child in the family is applying to that school.  pretty straightforward how that works.

Two siblings each applying to a list of schools that are new to both of them.  Pretty unclear how that would work.  Charters have always differed in their approach to newly entering siblings.  For example (doesn't matter which school because these days are gone), One school would pull an application during the lottery, if the application said a sibling had also applied, and their was a space in the sibling's grade, the sibling was granted the space immediately, before the lottery was pulled for that grade.

At another school, if a new student had a sibling, once the enrollment paperwork was submitted, the sibling moved to the top of the wait list.  Not before.  A real incentive to get enrollment paperwork in quickly.

The integrated lottery could do either of these generic approaches, or some other algorithm.[/quote]

In that case they aren't exactly clear on which schools are using this "sibling accepted" logic and how they are applying it (acceptance or waitlist).  That would be good to know.[/quote]

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