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Nooooo, under the "separate lotteries for each school within the common lottery" idea if you rank the school #1, you still have a better waitlist number for your #1 than anyone who ranked it lower.  So first off, NO you do NOT have the equivalent of the worst number in the lottery, not by a longshot.  Also, if you put safeties down that won't have a ton of people ranking it #1 (which happens now as well), you enter a separate lottery for everyone who ranked that school say #6, and it's entirely possible that if the people who ranked it higher don't chose it, you could still get in.  That doesn't change from one system to another.
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You still either get in or you don't, and if you don't get in you're screwed. If you're going to order the waitlist by ranking, if you don't get into your #1 it's going to be very hard to get into your #2, you're behind everyone who put it #1, and for each subsequent pick it gets harder and harder.  Not getting your #1 is still tantamount to getting the last number in the lottery, you just have to wait until after the waitlist runs to learn that you're screwed.
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You're right, I still don't get it.  Because at the end of the day under the model I'm suggesting, the same finite number of spots at popular schools is filled, but it's filled with a higher number of people who ranked each school #1.  And you still haven't explained why that isn't better, even if the person who puts "super popular school A" as #1 get shut out if they don't get in, at least overall more popular schools are filled with people who ranked that school #1.  Because each school lottery begins with placing those who ranked each school #1.  It's still the same number of spots, but an even higher % of #1 ranked choices are matched.

How is that not true?[/quote]

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