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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think there's truth to two of the PPs - in the old system, one bad draw didn't knock you out of the game (that absolutely happened this time around with the unified lottery. My Kindergartener had numbers in the hundreds for each of her schools) [b]so you had better odds [/b]taking individual chances at each school. BUT there really has been an explosion of people looking for spots so it's obvious that a greater number of people looking for a roughly similar number of spots (the opening of new schools isn't pacing growth) is going to cause headaches. 
I'm not thrilled with where we landed but we'll see how it goes.[/quote]

No, you didn't. It's painful how little DCUMers understand about statistics.[/quote]

DP, ok, so explain it.  If you have 12 schools, school 1, school 2, school 3, etc, and 1000 people applying for spots at all 12 schools, explain how the Common Lottery giving each person one single lottery number that is the biggest determining factor in how much "choice" you get or how good a choice you get, somehow gives ALL 1000 people the exact same odds of getting into even ONE of the 12 schools, than 12 SEPARATE lotteries where each of the 1000 gets a new chance at a great number?

Please explain that, because I don't understand you saying you didn't have better odds with 12 separate lotteries either.[/quote]

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