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That makes sense. I think the key thing going back to the original poster’s question is that you can only “hold” one SEES offer at once. So, best to rank your wait list schools in your order of preference.
Thank you, this aligns with what I understand. All selective enrollment offers HAVE to come from OAE, whether regular or wait list. The school never sees individual student test scores by design, so the school would not have the ability to make SEES offers.
For the RGC my child attends, this centralized admission is actually helpful. It takes the pressure off the principal and the RGC Coordinator, and takes away any consideration of preferential treatment. So I’m grateful for the role OAE plays here!
I’m almost certain all offers will need to come from Office of Access and Enrollment (OAE) even during the wait list period. And, for selective enrollment, the same rules will apply were you can only receive one offer at a time. The individual school absolutely may also get involved as far as sending a welcome email and offering to answer questions, but the offer itself needs to come from OAE.
As for order of offers, it is going to be the first school that you match with, so makes sense to put schools in your order of preference.
There is also the option of adding other classical schools to your wait list options once the wait list opens. If I’m reading right, seems like your scores were higher than tier cut scores for Poe and Sor Juana, and on par with McDade, and then Bronzeville was just a couple points higher.
In case this is helpful to others, I converted the cut scores shared by CPS for K entry to standard scores and then percentiles. Note this is based on the documentation I could find from CPS only, and my best approximation only.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JbIoUtbWH5ZAqsSKIcq-yrd3ziUhFVKfVPVD9nG0dAw/edit?usp=sharingI’m re-reading your message and I think maybe I’m getting the school’s point? The wait list numbers today only reflect those students who listed the school in their initial choices. However, once the rolling wait list opens then wait list numbers can change.
This is indicated in that same slide deck: “Because Selective Enrollment waitlists are resorted every night in descending total point order, applicants can move up OR down the waitlist.”
You should be able to add any new schools you like in the rolling waiting list period. So, in your example you could add Skinner West. You can still only have 6 selective enrollment options total on the wait list, though.
This is a link to the CPS training deck.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1vkTEIAruweTkpqgkoo1V2Wtr4WolWnem9y9krxsPvzc/edit#slide=id.g21139d1ddb1_0_1108See slide 18, specifically. Copying the relevant text below:
–An applicant can be waitlisted for up to 20 choice and 6 selective enrollment programs (per category) at a time.
–An applicant can withdraw from waitlists to add themselves to others.
–To participate, applicants can open their existing application and add programs.Yes, you can add a program for the rolling wait list. The only trick is that you cannot continue to hold an accepted offer at the same time.
If you did not receive an offer, all of your original schools would go automatically to the wait list. You should still have the opportunity to edit/add to those schools, though.
Thank you! Adding that information here directly so others see it in case of issues.
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https://forms.gle/kzt8b2QKaeqhZiT46Are you asking why you cannot see Classical percentile scores? In past years, those scores were only shown for K entry if you ranked a Classical school. For grades 1 and above, your child would have needed to register for a Classical exam specifically to see the scores.
Hi Parentneedsomehelp,
I guess accepting the offers comes down to where you think the kids would best thrive and whether you can handle the commutes of having them in two different schools.
Your daughter’s RGC score of 149 is extremely high. On a non-entry year it’s a question of where seats are available, but that scores is going to very competitive no matter which school you are applying to.With your son’s offer for K, if you are happy with the offer, there is value in taking it. There are the most seats available at K, so that is when you have the best chance getting into a school (exception are the 2 first grade entry RGCs).
Editing my comment as I later saw a mention of this in the training deck to say that “standard Scores are used in determining point total for Kinder applicants”. Based on this, I think you can convert cut scores to standard scores using this formula: =160-((300-
)/2.5) I played around with this in excel and the percentiles ended up making sense with past years. Will try to post it below.
