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It is true. These schools know how many students will end up declining approximately based on past years decline rate and over-offer the number of spots during the initial round. You can ask any of the top 5 schools administration and they will confirm this. It is the initial round only and then principal discretion.
Waitlists do NOT move for the top 5 SEHS (Payton, Northside, Whitney, Lane, Jones).
The only way to get in if you have not received an offer in the initial round is through Principal Discretion.
Generally, you would need to rank the Principal Discretion school as your first choice.No, some people selfishly waited until the last minute to let their schools know they are not coming back.
Have a great example of that in our SEES where family knew back in May they were not coming back but only told the school this week.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.
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.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!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?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.No one received an official acceptance yet. The friend possibly got a perfect score, so just confident he would be accepted.
Yes, this would happen if someone with a higher score than yours added themselves to the rolling waitlist for the same school.
