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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes -- this is the one (except Step 5 is Round 2 here.)  Earlier in the thread there is a link to this exact graphic.  A statistician came along and said there were minimal differences between New O, Denver, and Brooklyn - and I don't have the knowledge to weigh-in on that, but once again -- this is why you should rank in order of preference -- or that the most people have the most chances to be pleased. 
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One thing that has come out loud and clear in this thread is that it is a mistake to use the description from any other city when trying to understand DC. It just muddies things, they're all different in crucial ways.

Step 5 in the NO process is:

"Students who don't get a spot at any of their top eight choices will be manually assigned, and every student will have the right to appeal their placement."

[b]In DC, students who don't get a spot at any of their choices are assigned to their in-boundary school[/b].

Can you imagine the chaos that would erupt if every student had the right to appeal their placement? In a properly designed lottery there's nothing to appeal -- a sucky lottery number is a sucky lottery number.[/quote]

That might be the case K and up. Not so for preschool or prekindergarten. 
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Ps and pk4 are NOT something DC even has to offer.[/quote]

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