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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is the "switching" problem?  I have no desire to read 25 pages to see if this term is defined.  It was not in the cited page.[/quote]

There's a mechanism to switch options if two kids are admitted to different schools but they each have a higher preference for the other.  If you run separate lotteries you can't do that, as you would have to jump the waitlist to pull a kid up.  With a unified lottery it works out and benefits both parties.

All of this was gone over in that thread.  There are still only x number of seats for y number of students.  The common lottery does not change the odds of you getting in to any school.  It just simplifies the process, prevents shuffling, and distills your odds into a single number, instead of a whole bunch spread out over different waitlists.  When you enter your odds are the same under either system.[/quote]

PP here.  Should have included that it the common lottery feels worse for those who got bad waitlist numbers at ALL schools vs. getting a spread like you would have gotten in the past.  At that point, once the lotteries are run, yes, you would have worse odds.  But that's kind of meaningless, because running the lottery is the thing which actually plays out the operations of those odds.  At the beginning, which is the only place where it really matters, your odds are the same under either system.  It's the number of students applying over the number of seats available (inside your preference group).
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