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[quote=Anonymous]When determining the order of your rank, keep in mind the impact that the ranking of your in-boundary preference has on the schools ranked before and after it.

Remember, for your DCPS in-bound school, you have preference over ALL out-of-boundary applicants,  See: http://www.myschooldc.org/faq/faqs/.  This means that so long as there are enough seats for all in-bound applicants (as appears to be the case most East of the Park DCPS schools), you are guaranteed to at least get into your in-bound (if you aren't matched at a school you rank higher).

Do: Rank your schools in your true order of preference, including your in-bound option, but keep in mind the following impacts and scenarios:

1. If you love your in-bound, then rank it #1 - and that's awesome for you - you have little to stress about because it would take a very bad lottery draw for you not to be matched there.   Why?  For you not to be matched at your in-bound (or a school you rank higher), you would have to draw such a poor # that that there are more inbound families with a higher lotto # than you that get matched to your school than spots available at that school.  And even if this were the case that your lotto number was so bad, you are still going to be in front of all out of boundary students on the waitlist - so, as students who are matched at your shared in-bound get pulled off waitlists at other charter schools, you will be among the first to be offered a spot.

2.  Even if your in-bound isn't your #1 preference, you can still feel very confident that you will at least get into it.  But remember, if you # is so bad that you don't even get into your in-bound school, your bad # isn't going to get you into schools you ranked lower that you don't have preference at.  So, it makes little sense to have highly regarded charter schools below your in-bound on your list.  If your # is so bad that it isn't even good even to get you a spot at your in-bound, it isn't going to be good enough for a space at a highly regarded charter.

3. It really only makes sense to add schools below your in-bound that you think won't have any waitlists at all.  That way if you draw a really poor # that you aren't matched to your in-bound, you could at least be matched at one of those "safety" schools.

4. Conversely, if you are ranking popular OOB schools that may or may not even have spaces for OOB, you should probably have them ranked very high on your list or not at all.  Why?  If that OOB school does have spaces for OOB kids (which is a big if), it is likely that the # of spaces available for OOB is small.  So, if you draw a great lotto #, then you will be placed at a school towards the top of your list.  If that is an OOB school, then great.  But with a great # and an OOB school in the middle or bottom of your list, it seems unlikely you would get in there but not one of the schools you ranked higher.  If you draw an average or poor # and have an OOB school low on your list, it is likely that the limited # of OOB spots at that school are already filled by the time the algorithm gets around to your lottery # and attempts to match to you to the highest ranked school that still has spots available.

Bottomline: Always rank in your true preference.  Even if you violate the scenarios I outlined above, no big deal - all it means is that your ranked schools in places on your list that give you very slim chances of getting in there.  But, it is interesting to think about the various scenarios of where you would be matched according to your rankings under various different lotto scenarios...[/quote]

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