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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]If you get a fucked up lottery draw then your ranking doesn't even matter.[/quote]

Very true. And if you're fucked for one school, you are fucked for all schools, automatically shunted down the entire line of popular ones to a "safety."

What would be the effect of having the school's lotteries all be individual? Is the problem a lack of ability to centrally administer it? Can't the charter board just run a lottery for each school? That seems more fair to me than the luck of the draw one number for all... and I say that as someone who has been lucky with low number draws (relatively lucky).

Doesn't the current system just sort of enforce the crazy popularity contest with the HRCS's? 
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The reason it is done centrally is that more people's preferences are maximized. With individual lotteries, you may be #1 at you #12 school, and vice versa. Someone else may be #1 at your #1 school, which they ranked last, because they want your #12 school. You would both be better off if you switched places. The algorithm prevents that. Your good draw is pit toward your most preferred school.[/quote]

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