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[quote=Anonymous]There is no disadvantage, you are just a poor loser.

Analyzing the simple scenario (12 schools, equally desirable to each person) that you gave above, if there are 200 spots and 800 students, each student has an equal chance to get one of those spots regardless of whether it is one lottery or more, as if they get more than one they have to toss it back in the pot.

But there are three major advantages that you see, two that have been discussed recently, and one that you just pointed out:
1.	 People actually get to choose which school they prefer and you no longer have the scenario in which someone who wanted Yu Ying got into EL Haynes and vice versa and can’t switch.
2.	There is no waiting for the major shakeout, most people know fairly early what the plan will be and have time to act accordingly, instead of waiting until October to have any clue how it will end up.
3.	People research their options and don’t just choose the most popular option, thus convincing more people to apply for lesser known (generally neighborhood) schools and invest in them when they get in.  This increases the number of acceptable choices and conceivably can improve the schools long-term.

The one actual disadvantage is that the parents need to do a lot of upfront research when they might not end up having the option, thus they get invested and some end up having wasted a lot of time, which could turn them into poor losers who no longer understand statistics.
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