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CPS announced a change to their elementary “Choice” admissions process that will require RANKING up to 20 Choice options, instead of just listing 20 with no order. That means a family can only get up to ONE Choice program AND up to ONE Selective Enrollment program in additional to their guaranteed neighborhood school. Preliminary info was released in this email: https://mailchi.mp/cps.edu/gocps-monthly-memo-for-school-leaders-administrators-17584631?e=8f974d4b4b
Details are still forthcoming but supposedly parents do not need to “lock in” their rank order until early 2025. Post any more details you learn here!
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I’m confused about how this works presently (applying to K for the 26-27 school year). If I am truly torn between 2-3 schools (and given the 11/14 deadline & only once monthly tours available at many schools meaning that I can’t possibly get into all of the school buildings for tours before the cut off), how am I supposed to do this? Do I rank our least likely to get in options as our top choices, and leave more likely options (LaSalle— proximity preference, and higher percentage of seats offered based on previous cycle) lower? If I put LaSalle as number one that means even with the 1% or less chance or less of getting an out of boundaries Mayer or Drummond seat, that essentially it would be like we didn’t even apply to those schools, we wouldn’t have access to their waitlists, etc? So do I put the pie in the sky ones first, and move LaSalle down, but then does that lower my chance of getting LaSalle and then being left with nothing? I really do not like the choice ranking requirement, especially paired with the early deadline. I feel very stuck!
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The way I understand the ranking process is that you should rank them in the order of preference, or rather stated, in the order in which you would accept an offer. For your example, if you put Mayer #1 and Lasalle #2, you win your 1% lottery and you get an offer from Mayer – would you be disappointed that you didn’t get an offer from Lasalle and wish you would be choosing that school instead of Mayer?
For what it’s worth, I am going through the same thing between Lincoln/Mayer (out of boundary) and Lasalle (Proximity). I understand your thought process of putting the “pie in the sky” ones first just to see if you win the lottery, and at worst, get a WL # and see how bad it is. We’ll likely put Lincoln first for the off chance they take out of boundary kids this year and then Lasalle second (we really liked Lasalle so would be ecstatic to get it)
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Thanks for the reply, I appreciate your insight! I think I’m just feeling bummed about missing out on the days of being able to receive/review multiple offers and make the best choice from there. I also really like LaSalle and we enjoyed our tour & chat with the principal there. Another neighborhood family we know from preschool has an older sibling that’s been there for a few years and they speak really highly of it. I think a point of confusion I have with regards to rankings is whether your ranking is weighed or considered at all in whether you’re given an offer, or are they completely independent of one another? I’d guess the latter in a lottery system, but I don’t want to shoot myself in the foot and lower our chances of being accepted at LaSalle (since we have the greatest statistical likelihood of being accepted there), if for some reason we’re less likely to get an offer if we didn’t rank it number one. I guess I need to call CPS and ask for clarification. I’ll keep my fingers crossed for you on Lincoln!
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Rankings aren’t weighted. They’re used to match students to the highest-ranked program their lottery position qualifies them for. There’s a video of the GoCPS website specifically focused on the role ranking plays in the process.
https://www.cps.edu/gocps/elementary-school/elementary-school-videos/
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Appreciate this, thank you!
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