June 2022: Results from the 2022 NYC School Admission Lottery Surveys

NYC MS and HS admissions use student choice data, school rankings, and lottery numbers to assign students to schools using a matching algorithm. Parents are often baffled by results they don’t understand due to lack of information. I created crowdsourcing surveys to understand the odds of matching to various schools, and wrote an explanation of the lottery process. Results of the 2022 survey are published here:

https://medium.com/algorithms-in-the-wild/results-from-the-2022-nyc-school-admission-lottery-surveys-c2befbc20da6