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There is no point in arguing with you, you either refuse to understand it or you are trying purposefully to mislead people.  You acknowledge weighting for sibs and IB (which only applies for PS/PK), but you are denying that you are also weighted on your ranking.  That makes you half right, HALF WRONG.
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There isn't weighting of sibs and IB. Those are in effect separate lotteries. IB goes first, then sibs, then everyone else. If there are more people in the IB round than there are slots everybody in the sibs or general rounds has zero chance. Zero chance -- not a slim chance, zero chance.

There is no weighting.[/quote]

Post an official, verifiable source that this is the way the lottery will go.  Otherwise, you're lumped in with the other "there's no weighting rankings" poster who is saying this with no source and in total opposition from what actual, real life, official common lottery staff are saying.

CONFUSED?  CALL THE COMMON LOTTERY YOURSELF.  DO NOT LET ANONYMOUS POSTS ON DCUM MAKE YOU PUT LESS STOCK IN YOUR RANKINGS![/quote]

From the FAQ:
"When there are more students than spaces at a school, students who have a preference (such as a sibling preference) will be the first to be offered spaces. Then, random selection decides which other students will be offered spaces.
 
Students will be matched with no more than one school. My School DC will try to match each student with their 1st choice, then their 2nd choice, and so on through the student’s list."

No weighting. Priority. Random selection. Students matched in order of their choices.
http://www.myschooldc.org/faq/#common-3[/quote]

This is correct, but if you ranked another school higher than your IB/Sib school (ranked #2) and you got into your #1 you would not also be granted acceptance into your IB/SIB school.  This is because you ranked it lower than the school where you were granted acceptance.  Remember the point of the common lottery is to maximize satisfaction across the board.  In this instance the family should be satisfied as their child got into their first choice.  If this family did not get into their first choice then they would be more likely to get into the SIB/IB school then say a family who did not have a preference, but ranked it #1, hence sibling/IB preference.

If you are saying it does not work this way, then I how will DCPS deal with potential enrollment issues for K when IB children who were refused a PK/PS seat seek attendance at K along with all of the OOB children who were accepted ahead of them in the lottery.  [/quote]

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