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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think you're not understanding what the proposed combined lottery will do. It will dramatically REDUCE the total number of schools parents can lottery for. It is the opposite of scattershot. The idea is to force parents to lottery only for the schools they are very serious about. Like the DCPS lottery, you will not be waitlisted on schools you ranked lower than where you get in. Theoretically at least, it should reduce the number of applicants for any one school, improving your odds at the schools you do try for.
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Or, everyone lotteries for the popular charters, the waitlists are still ridiculously long and you have almost no shot at getting in, and the less popular charters don't have enough kids lottery to fill their slots. Then, total mayhem ensues, with people contacting the less popular charters trying to get in, but not having a lottery number to do so.

Unlike DCPS, charters don't have students who will go because they are in-bounds. The system works for DCPS because of that. For charters, if they are going to implement one system, they should let you put down as many schools as you want (in ranked order).[/quote]
Yep, you would have to be very smart about how you do your choices, or you'll wind up at your in-bounds school. It will be interesting, to say the least, to see if they get the unified lottery off the ground.[/quote]

Yeah, except for it's not just the individual families that suffer--the less popular charters do, too. I suspect they won't do this system this year, or if they do a lot of charters opt out. On the YY website, it says they are looking at coordinating the DATES of application (not a common application). If they do move forward, I imagine the less popular charter schools would fight to expand the # of schools to which you can apply, or just opt out of the system.[/quote]

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