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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
Re: your post, post a verifiable official source for your take on the lottery, or I don't believe it.  
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http://www.myschooldc.org/faq/#common-3

[quote=Anonymous]
I did not misunderstand what I was told, as I asked the specific question re: whether someone with no sibling preference or inbound but who ranked a school #1 could get in over someone with sibling or IB preference but who ranked it #2, and was told yes that is absolutely possible.  There are several variables re: who the computer even looks at first and what the other applicants who are being looked at before/at the same time had re: rankings or preferences.
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There is a chance that someone with no preference gets in over someone with preference who ranked a school #2:  if the person with preference got into their #1. It has nothing to do with who the computer "looked at first."

[quote=Anonymous]
I won't argue terms "priority" vs. "weighting".  I just know that ranking a school #1 gives you as much of an advantage as having a sibling at the school but ranking it #2... who gets that particular spot depends on who the computer looks at first.  In one pull it could be the #1/no sib who gets it, in another it could be the #2 w/sib who gets it.  But in either pull, #3 with or without sib or IB or not is not getting it unless they are pulled ahead of the others and don't get into their 1 or 2.  
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This is absolutely not true.

[quote=Anonymous]
If ranking didn't matter or wasn't weighted, it wouldn't give you just as much an advantage as IB or sibling.  And it was explained to me repeatedly as being just as important, giving you the same edge as IB or sibling.  (Although a combo of #1, sib and IB (for PS/PK) will be hard to beat.)[/quote]

Either you didn't understand, or the person who explained it to you didn't understand.[/quote]

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