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[quote=Anonymous]I see no information on the website regarding "ranking" per se.  What I do see in the FAQs is this:

"I APPLIED FOR THREE PROGRAMS FOR MY CHILD; ONE IS MY FIRST CHOICE AND THE OTHERS ARE MY SECOND AND THIRD CHOICES. WHAT HAPPENS IF I GET MY SECOND OR THIRD CHOICE FIRST?
   
All choices are treated equally, however, if selected, you will only receive placement for one program.  If you choose to decline your placement choice, at your request, you may be placed on the waiting list for the other options."

To me, a native speaker of English, this means that if my choices were (1) Goddard, (2) Pullen, and (3) Chavez, but the lottery results came in as (1) Pullen, (2) Goddard, and (3) Chavez, the available seats would be filled up in the order of the lottery results.  In other words, no particular school would be "filled up first".  We should have gotten a offer letter for Pullen (although we prefer and also "won" Goddard).  Choices are treated equally...but placements are based on lottery results.  Anything else is not a lottery, but something subjective.

Another part of PGCPS's website states: "The application form permits multiple Specialty Program choices per student. If more than one Specialty Program choice is selected, each choice will be treated equally and placement will be made according to the first available opening."

So, how is it possible to have a placement in the 70's knock out a placement in the 10's or 20's?  We did everything according to the rules as written...this is extremely unfair.

Also, to answer a previous poster's question/comment:  we chose Chavez as a "last resort" option because our local school is dismal.  So, Chavez is a better option that what we have now.  We had no idea that with a placement number in the 70's, it could bump us out of one of our other two choices.

I would have been perfectly happy with this process if we had been offered Chavez and our numbers for Goddard and Pullen were worse, like 110 & 120.  However, we're getting offered our last in choice and last in lottery results.  How can this be?

I'm having a bit of an out-of-body experience with all of this.  Numbers are numbers...there should be no dispute.

I appreciate everyone's input.  You can tell I'm not going quietly on this one.

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