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This. Every year there is at least one poster on DCUM who posts something like this. Because your very basic understanding is clearly superior to the Nobel prize winning algorithm designed to prevent gaming and reward only true preference.
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This is the Pete Buttigieg effect: people who don’t know Harvard types think everyone should be super-impressed by them.  [b]While people who are or know Harvard types are capable of asking smart questions about problems and having a conversation about pros and cons.[/b]

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This is absolutely true.  The OP did not do this, though; she suggested a system that has been used in the past, and discarded in favor of the current, more efficient system.

In essence, the Op is asking, "Hey, you know hat thing that we used to have, that worked worse than this?  Hows about we do that again?  Here's a bunch of reasons that have already been discredited that we should do so."  [/quote]

It was also gamed regularly. People who knew someone at the school would be offered a slot despite their wait list position, people who showed up repeatedly would get a slot when someone took pity on them. Centralizing and standardizing eliminated cheating and the perception of cheating not to mention the disruptive September shuffle. If you weren’t ‘playing’ the old lottery system you have NO idea how bad it was.  [/quote]

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