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Originally Posted by dtengineering

One of my favorite studies (wish I had the citation here...) showed that students in magnet schools had higher average academic success than those in non-magent schools. But the district they studied had fewer spaces in magnet schools than they had applicants, so they conducted a lottery to see which students would get in to the magnet schools.

This is precisely my workplace. However, I am not knowledgable on any data comparing applicants who were accepted or not accepted through the lottery. It would be an interesting thing to look at here.