OPE confirmed that NEST principal was incorrect: ranking of students comes before ranking of schools.Thus a 99 with Anderson as 1 and Nest as 2 will still get Nest before a 98 with Nest as 1. When they get to your number you get your highest ranked school with an open seat.

op: I know there were a lot of other questions I wanted to ask him but I choked when I got him on the phone (I was so surprised he picked up his phone). I wanted to ask about mail, # of 99s, # of seats in each program, # of overaccepts given how many say they ranked a spot they wouldn't use, etc. But all I could do was stammer out my 1 question, get his answer, thank him and hang up