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Understanding your Lottery Number

In my opinion, the most important thing to learn about and understand this application season is how your Random Number works in admissions. This is an article in Medium by Amelie Marian who has been writing about algorithms and the nyc high school admissions lottery for years now. Thanks to her hard work in putting together this survey…even us non data scientists can understand this a little bit lol. As you look further in this article you’ll see her survey results from this past admission cycle. It is broken out by admissions method and further by district. Lots of great info here and seeing the cut offs can help you as you start to build your lists. Please note this survey is from a small self-selective group of parents who participated and is therefore not all the data there ever was. But it is very useful in my opinion.

https://medium.com/algorithms-in-the-wild/results-from-the-2025-nyc-school-admission-lottery-surveys-cd12340b3364