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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ok but I do kinda get what the OP is saying even though earlier I argued that his idea is flawed.

Case in point, we had a terrible master number. But thankfully we got into LAMB separately. Many people kinda had two chances and were equally glad if they managed to get in.

I now however realize we are probably attending school with at least a few people who would’ve rather been someplace else since it wasn’t ranked by preference. I think the point is, you either have this all or nothing master number situation, with winners and losers, or you have a lot of people who are kind of ok with where they’re at but it wasn’t their first choice. I also have been that person who has a great master number and kind of does get in everywhere because waitlist offers keep arising. I don’t know if there’s any way to soften the blow of a bad number but having at least one other roll of the dice feels like it. [/quote]

But you might be happier with another school, say DC Bilingual. And someone at DC Bilingual might prefer LAMB. So LAMB opting out of the lottery made you both worse off.

It still goes back to the number of seats. There's no way to make everyone happy, but at least the common lottery makes more people happy. Or less miserable.

-NP[/quote]

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