A Manhattan mom discovered an embarrassing glitch in the city Department of Education lottery system used to match students with middle and high schools.
When NYC students filled out their online applications for 2022-23, each kid automatically received a long string ofThe random numbers are used to determine the order in which students are matched to programs.
But as one 8th-grader’s mom figured out, if students canceled and re-started their applications – as the DOE permitted – they received a different lottery number each time. The loophole allowed users to potentially game the system by simply re-applying until a favorable lottery number popped up. “We are taking action. We are reverting those students’ lottery numbers to their originally generated numbers. Affected families will be notified directly.”
Four days later, on March 14, they canceled and re-started again, this time getting a random number that started with “50,” which wasn’t as good as the first number they got, but much better than the second. “Other parents may have started with a good lottery number and changed to a worse one without realizing it.”New York City Department of Educ
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