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

Very true. [b]And if you're fucked for one school, you are fucked for all schools[/b], 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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I was fucked at them all under teh old system.  Didn't get into a single school.   It did happen. A lot.  And the chances of it happening are the same as the chances of it happening now.  Same number of desirably spots and same number of people wanting them.
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This is correct. Odds are always the same- number of available slots divided by number of applicants. Now you just get the odds run at once instead of sequentially. It felt like you had more "chances" under the old system, but the odds haven't changed at all. This system is MUCH more administratively efficient, and prevents most of the shuffling and multiple spot holding. Those are the benefits, but at the core its still a lottery to allocate a scarce resource, so not everyone can get that resource.[/quote]

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