Anonymous wrote:I think the lottery determines the order of all the kids with the exact same score. So it only matters at the threshold scores.

This is correct.

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Anonymous wrote:Straight A, 8th grader in Geometry didn't get called for SWW. Shes puzzled. Onward

Samesies! 4.0, geometry. Thought working relationships with recommending teachers were terrific. Apparently mistaken!

And your relationships with the teacher may in fact be terrific. The question is whether the teachers played the game and rated DC max across the board or tried to answer the questions thoughtfully but didn't rate you DC tops everywhere. The form is online somewhere. It would be easy for a teacher that really likes your DC to honestly answer with something other that the top score in a category if that teacher didn't realize doing that might sink you kids application.