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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do not understand why there are so many slots per entry. Does it increase or decrease your chances of getting in if you do not use all the slots? And why do people even put in slots that they don’t really want? [/quote]

It increases your chances of getting into a school if you can list more schools.  It will not affect how good your number is.  But we matched with our #12 choice.  If we could only list 10, we would have had no match.  We did really want it, just not as much as we wanted the 11 above it.  But we enrolled and it has been good so far.[/quote]

I have a hard time believing that there are 12 schools that are that much better than an IB for a 3 year old when you take into account commutes. There aren’t 12 good public/charter MS options in the entire city. Six is a more reasonable number.[/quote]

In most parts of the city that's true, but in Ward 5 where we live, population density and plenty of charters mean it's not hard to make a list of 11 schools better than IB.

When we were lotterying, I was looking to change my job and we were renters open to the idea of moving, so I really appreciated being able to have a lot on the list.[/quote]

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