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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We got nothing in the first round or the second round, so we're sticking with daycare for another year. Can't help but think that the previous system would have been better for us. [/quote]

You clearly never went through the previous system.[/quote]

BS.  I went through the previous system and can tell you that EVERYONE I know got in somewhere they were happy with for PS3.  EVERYONE.  In fact most of us had multiple offers.  Sure, we may have been less likely to get in at our number one pick, but we got multiple offers.  This time around, if you got a bad draw in the lottery you were shut out of everywhere.

For us, it worked okay.  For PS3 we had offers for Bridges, Appletree, DC Prep and a couple of others, as well as our inbound.  For K we played again now with the common lottery and were shut out initially and hovered around the 50 percent mark on all the wait lists.  Got in to our number 5 pick in May and happy there (so far).  Still, for most people under the old system so long as you applied everywhere your chances of being shut out were minimal.[/quote]

I find this perspective odd as there are the same number of slots for children in the old system as well as the common lottery, and therefore the same number shut out either way. I guess last year your friends were just all lucky. [/quote]

^^OK, that was my post and then I just saw the 5+ pages of attempts to explain statistics - LOL! Now realize this topic has been more adequately covered. +1,000,000 to anyone who took statistics in school and passed. 
 - signed, Math Nerd who is happy with the new system[/quote]

I also am happy with the system, and have tried ad nauseum to explain it to everyone as a stats nerd, AND I got a crappy number. (From my waitlist numbers, several of which were over 400, I know I got a very late draw.) Just because I was a loser doesn't mean that it's not the best way of allocating scarce resources.[/quote]

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