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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Raise your hands if you just discovered you are dead last (or next to last) on every.  single.  waitlist.[/quote]

We're pretty close to the bottom. We're one of the lowest down the WL at our IB DCPS school too. I can see the allure of NOT having an integrated lottery now. At least with separate lotteries for each charter you at least have the chance of getting a better number at some schools instead of the same crappy number for every school.[/quote]

while each entrant only gets one number, I thought each number drawn for each school is random?  Can anyone explain the mechanics of MS?[/quote]

Watch the video on the myschooldc home page [/quote]

yeah, that's not what I asked.  that's just a basic primer on the lottery process.  I'm talking more about the algorithim[/quote]

They use a Roth-style algorithm.

(Roth won a Nobel Prize for his work showing that this style of approach maximizing results for all participants as a whole.

It is match stable algorithm, Roth developed it. Its featured in a few other school districts. Do some basic research.

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/2012/popular-economicsciences2012.pdf[/quote]

Pretty sure that's wrong.  He designed the residency matching system for docs, which takes ranking/preference into account.  MSDC does not - you get one lottery number.  And if it sucks, you're at the bottom of every wait list and effectively shut down (anyone who ranked the school and had a number higher than you (and didn't get in/didn't get into a higher ranked school) goes in front of you, doesn't matter if they ranked the school 12 or 1).  You get shit on.  Whereas the guy who gets the good number gets his top choice.  And others with good numbers not only get one of their top choices, they get sweet waitlist numbers anywhere they didn't get in initially.  Which means they win several times over - in at Yu Ying, sweet.  You also have a low waitlist number at CMI AND ITS.  Or whatever.  It's not really maximizing things across the board - a residency type matching program (taking into account ranking for example) would work better for all, on average, but be far more complex.  And this is definitely where an integrated lottery cuts peoples chances significantly - you really have a single chance, not 12, versus however many you might have with some separate lotteries.  Are there upsides?  Absolutely, but this definitely isn't one of them.[/quote]

The lottery distributes a scarce resource.  Some get lucky some are SOL.[/quote][/quote]

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