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Once you are on the waitlists, preferences do not matter. As offers are made and declined to those on the waitlist before you, you may get your last preference sooner than your first one depending on how many people are ahead of you in the waitlist for each individual school. So, unless you know you will not accept an offer from a certain school, do not remove it from your waitlist.

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I believe the wait lists to the top 5 SEHS do not move at all, i.e., no offers are made.
Now when you declined Jones, you can only get into your first choice via Principal Discretion, but not through the waitlist.

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Agree, Jones seems to have kids at about similar level scorewise, regardless of tier.

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Congrats! Were you in SW neighborhood or classical program?

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Cutoffs
https://drive.google.com/file/d/14OPLKglIZGLVpYtIzIy_iJyDXEZDt5se/view?usp=drivesdk

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Congrats to all those who got in!
If you don’t mind, can you also post what was your elementary school. Curious which elementary schools feed into SEHS.
Thanks!

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It is not enhancing chances, it is fraud. Many families got unenrolled and banned from the selective enrollment for life as a result of their exploitation of the tier system.
So, what were you saying about free test taking?

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These tests are open to everyone including suburbanites and out of state people who do not pay taxes to the city of Chicago. CPS families are Chicago taxpayers, so the tests are really paid for from their taxes.
If you really want to go after people who exploit the system, you should go after those who play the tier game.

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It sounds like this bothers you. Why?

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No one received an official acceptance yet. The friend possibly got a perfect score, so just confident he would be accepted.

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Yes, this would happen if someone with a higher score than yours added themselves to the rolling waitlist for the same school.

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They can move and continue attending.

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Received today Edison RGC for 5th grade, score 141.
Will be declining in case this information is helpful to someone waiting.

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You do not have to give up other choice offers. You can register the 2nd twin for one of them, e.g. Disney, and if later you receive a Bell offer for her, you will just un-register from Disney and register in Bell.

Accepting a choice school offer does not take you our of the pool for either other choice schools or SEES.

It is only when you accept an SEES, you are no longer in the SEES pool although still in the choice pool.

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Good chance for SN with 99/99!

Will need to wait for people to report if they are staying or leaving. They sent a survey a couple weeks ago, but not everyone cares to let the school know they are not staying.

Congrats on scores and good luck!

 

 

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