Nearly 17,500 lottery applications were received in the first five hours.
A year into construction, the groups will begin taking housing lottery applications from potential residents.
Ren 10 parents are already engaged in their children's education they shop for schools and submit lottery applications.
Officials of the New York City Marathon started accepting lottery applications Monday for the Nov. 2 race on their Web site.
Applications received after that date will be placed on a waiting list; once the lottery applications are exhausted those on the waiting list will be offered the opportunity to buy a co-op on a first-come-first-served basis.
When Raúl and Lily entered the lottery, the application forms were still on paper and the storefront entrepreneurs didn't earn much more than the street-corner scribes who balance manual typewriters on milk crates and write up wills or lawsuits for a few soles.
The Early College Schools enroll a total of 5,000 students, selected by lottery from applications.
Mr. Webb said leasing of the units would be done by lottery, with applications available through Village Care of New York by August.
More recent restrictions include a lottery for applications at All Souls School and preference to long-term members of the congregation at the Park Avenue Synagogue's nursery.
At present, chief constables have the sole discretion to respond to individual requests, leading to a postcode lottery in the application of the deletion policy.
Ms. Weathersby said the school, which admits students by lottery, received few applications from black families.
