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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread is wildly paranoid.

We are in lottery for first time this year. Know it’s a very long shot, fingers crossed though. I wish there were more choices for middle school and more programs like HB available.

Best of luck to all [/quote]

Condolences when you don’t win, hopefully your neighborhood schools are ok. Its too bad you couldn’t trust the lottery to be fair.

And are naive enough to think us advocating for more transparency and fairness of a wildly inequitable program are paranoid. [/quote]

Yes. I find your approach wildly self serving and paranoid. Trust the process. [/quote]

There’s no reason to think it’s rigged. And I don’t think we have to know what our numbers are to trust that they’re being honest. It’s probably just to keep folks from calling constantly. I can’t believe it’s going to be aired live. I’d rather just get a notice in the mail. It’s not going to devastate us if the kid doesn’t get in, but it’s a great opportunity if they do. [/quote]

You live here long enough, you see who is admitted, the siblings admitted (i ran the numbers, the odds are 1% for most schools for that happening). It should be a bigger school for equality with other schools, but either way it should be transparent.

How would having a number to watch for in the lottery spur people to call more?[/quote]

So you think it's a conspiracy because some siblings are admitted? I do know some families with more than one kid at HB. But I know many many more families with one kid at HB and others at the other schools.

Also, your methodology is flawed. If a family has one kid already at HB, they are more likely to apply for their younger kid. And they keep trying and apply over and over. And they are also more likely to accept a spot mid year and uproot their kid. Other families may just apply once for 6th and then move on.

In my experience if a family keeps applying year after year, they actually have a pretty good shot of eventually getting their kid into HB. [/quote]

I know several families at HBW. All entered either 6th or 9th, not your edge case. Try again. [/quote]

We had two kids at H-B, one entered and got off the wait list after three years (this is when they didn't restart it every year, there was one continuous waitlist for middle school and one for high school). The other one we entered for 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th and they got in for 9th. I don't know if anyone was actually chosen from the lottery for 7th and 8th but they did let you apply. But they were also there several years apart, I don't know if people even knew they were siblings. [/quote]

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