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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We got nothing in the first round or the second round, so we're sticking with daycare for another year. Can't help but think that the previous system would have been better for us. [/quote]

You clearly never went through the previous system.[/quote]

BS.  I went through the previous system and can tell you that[b] EVERYONE I know[/b] got in somewhere they were happy with for PS3.  EVERYONE.  In fact most of us had multiple offers.  Sure, we may have been less likely to get in at our number one pick, but we got multiple offers.  This time around, if you got a bad draw in the lottery you were shut out of everywhere.

For us, it worked okay.  For PS3 we had offers for Bridges, Appletree, DC Prep and a couple of others, as well as our inbound.  For K we played again now with the common lottery and were shut out initially and hovered around the 50 percent mark on all the wait lists.  Got in to our number 5 pick in May and happy there (so far).  Still, for most people under the old system so long as you applied everywhere your chances of being shut out were minimal.[/quote]

Awwww, look at you thinking you know something about statistics![/quote]

My thoughts exactly. PP doesn't seem to understand that no lottery procedure can change the number of desirable spots.[/quote]

NP - and you 2 PP's seem to not understand that 12 separate shots at 12 schools gives EVERYONE who applies better odds at getting into one than 1 lottery number for all 12 determining it.  Yes, you deal with the exact same number of actual open spots in both scenarios, but you increase your odds of getting lucky somewhere dramatically when it's a separate draw (and separate random lottery number) for each school.

But don't worry, you're just as cute as you think the other PP is when you don't understand something.  ;)[/quote]

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