"More than 93% of pupils have an offer from a school of their preference and 65% have been offered a place at their first choice school.
Chair of the board, Chris Kiernan, said: "For the seventh year running, London's co-ordinated admissions system has been very successful in enabling more parents to be allocated a school of their preference by a fairer distribution of available offers.
A glance at the current challenges to affirmative action in higher education would show little more than the fact that a number of white applicants have asserted in court that they were illegally denied admission to college or law school because of preferences given to racial or ethnic minorities.
Eighth graders are asked to apply to up to 12 schools in order of preference; high schools then rank applicants without seeing where the students ranked them.
For middle school applications you get to choose four schools in order of preference, but the top schools ignore any applications that do not place them first.
In Wales, parents give their preferred schools in order of preference.
Cambridge, Mass., has designed a program called "controlled choice," in which all schools are open to everyone regardless of where they live, and parents rank the schools in order of preference.
Parents can list their top eight public district or charter school choices in order of preference, and the district will place students according to availability.
These types of motivation endorsed by the students are considered important in predicting how students adjust to their study, how much effort they are willing to invest in their study, performance in medical school and preference of specialty [ 11, 12].
Younger age and higher completed level of schooling independently predicted preference of electronic questionnaires in TKR patients.
He said any changes would have to continue some form of preference for students at schools that have historically been underrepresented.
