Who are the geniuses at CPS who decided that the principal’s discretion period runs concurrently with spring break?? Are they kidding? We’re asking these kids to get letters written, write an essay, get all their info together, and the application isn’t even AVAILABLE until Monday?? And then no school the week the thing is due (when the kids would likely need to get their letters back from teachers, etc.)

I have a couple of questions about PD –

1) I think we can all agree that the timing is odd, particularly given that they are not releasing decisions until the week of June 3rd.

2) How many students actually apply for PD for any given school?

Any word on Principal Discretion decisions yet?

talked to CPS. PD would be updated on the CPS website Thursday 5:00 PM. Not Offered would change to Offered if a spot was offered. If a spot was not offered there would be no change.

Will everyone that applied get a letter?

Wondering if all available slots (at each school) are filled. Does anyone know ?

Are the results out?

No clue

Well, I’m afraid if there is no notification on the site yet, most likely none is forthcoming. My daughter’s status is unchanged as of 7:15. Guess I’ll wait for the letter. This is such a messed up system.

Same, no changes to my daughter’ Account yet. I think there should be a spot for this instead of guesswork.

If it says no offer you did not get in.

Has anyone gotten results yet?  Either by mail or on your CPS account.  It’s now Friday morning …

Nothing, which is especially annoying because it is unclear if “Not Offered” is the original message or a new one.

And nothing showing up in my USPS “Informed Delivery” for today, so that’s unfortunate.

Recording to your commentaries/observations; Your students weren’t offered a seat at the selective enrollment high school they desired to be admitted into. My son was admitted into “Jones College Prep” through Principal Discretion.  If your student received an offer, your status will be switched from “Not Offered” to “Offered” in the school, your student desired to be admitted into. All PD applicants should be receiving a letter, whether or not, you received an offer, regarding your current status.

I spoke to Arlene in the OAE office a little after 8 a.m. today. Received confirmation that our student did not receive a seat via PD at Jones (Arlene shared that Jones received 212 PD applications this year for the 22 available seats). She confirmed PD letters were, in fact, mailed out yesterday. And, while that snail mail wait time is incredibly unhelpful to the students and families that logged in 10 times last night trying to ascertain what the results were (or if the website had even been updated) she also confirmed that if you see no change in data regarding “offered” or “not offered” seats via your GoCPS login, then your student did NOT receive a PD offer. Based upon this horribly-designed, unclear, and stressful feedback system for parents and students, I thought I’d take a minute to post and clarify for those in the same boat as us.

Thanks for the info, “Enthusiasm Curbed.”

Is there a waitlist for PD?

Each principal  has five alternates for PD which they select at the time they make the final decisions.

if a student does not accept a PD position, they will go to the list of alternates. If your child is an alternate, it should be listed on the letter you get from CPS.

Question: How many of you here have 100% faith in the PD process?

What are you guys hearing?

Look up Tribune article: “Thousands of students improperly won seats in CPS schools, a ‘pervasive problem,’ inspector general says”

Similar pattern in SEHS PD process.

#9962, would you mind sharing some info? You don’t have to name anyone but please help us understand if there’s something happening behind the scenes. Really troubling if we can’t trust the PD process.