Enrollment & Lottery
You Cannot Game the SFUSD Lottery — List Your True Preferences
The SFUSD lottery uses a deferred acceptance algorithm that is strategy-proof: any school you ranked higher than your assigned school is full of students with higher priority than you. Misrepresenting your preferences cannot improve your outcome — it can only hurt you. The single best thing you can do is list schools in the order you actually want them.
Gale-Shapley deferred acceptance algorithm; SFUSD assignment policy
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