I have a question concerning preschool admissions. The kindergarten that my
daughter went to for preschool has a "random lottery" for admissions. They
published a list of all of the student ids of the students who got in and
the ones who did not and were put on a waitlist.

She did not get in, so I decided that it was unfair and plotted the data.
What statistical tricks should I use to figure out if the lottery was
random or not?

I have attached a plot of the data in question. To me, the plot looks
slightly skewed towards the low numbers. The lower numbers are kids that
signed up for the lottery earlier and I hypothesise have  favorable
connections in the school.

[image: montesorriAdmissions.png]


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