How confident are you with your first choice?
It can of course happen that students are disappointed, Daoudi emphasizes. “About 96 to 97 percent will be placed on their first choice. Because the way we draw is the same, those percentages will be approximately the same.”
Utrecht continues to work according to the Boston system, a lottery method that assigns most students to the school of first choice, with the result that a small group of students end up at a school lower on their list. “Four percent is a generous calculation, but last year only 2.5 percent were selected for a preferred school. They then move on to their next choice until they have a place.”