Understand how and when to use the Guaranteed Placement lottery design setting.
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What is Guaranteed Placement?
Guaranteed Placement is an optional setting available in the Lottery Design setup. When enabled for a sub-lottery, the lottery design will ensure that any students who are eligible for the sub-lottery are placed on the offered list regardless of the entered available capacity.
For example, if military families have guaranteed placement, then any student from a military family will be guaranteed placement even if there are no seats available, and they will get priority over any other criteria that is not guaranteed placement so any other students would be placed on the Waiting List if the military student seats exceeded placement.
Will Guaranteed Placement always overseat my offered list?
Guaranteed placement will always overseat the offered list if more students qualify for sub-lotteries with guaranteed placement than there are available seats for the indicated grade and program UNLESS the cutoff number is set to 0.
When the cutoff number is set to 0, students will be seated if guaranteed placement is enabled for sublottery 1. If guaranteed placement is enabled for any lower sublotteries, students will not be placed on the offered list.
Examples
Example 1
Cutoff # is 36
Sublottery 1 - guaranteed - 12 students eligible
Sublottery 2 - not guaranteed - 24 students eligible
The Offered list will NOT be overseated because the 12 students who qualify for guaranteed placement will be placed first and the rest of the seats will be filled until the cutoff number is reached. There is potential for the offered list to be overseated if students with a guaranteed priority (sublottery 1) are added to the lottery after the initial lottery run.
Example 2
Cutoff # is 36
Sublottery 1 - not guaranteed - 24 students eligible
Sublottery 2 - not guaranteed - 12 students eligible
Sublottery 3 - guaranteed - 12 students eligible
The Offered list will be overseated by 12 students because the seats will be filled by students from sublottery 1 and sublottery 2. Because students in sublottery 3 are guaranteed placement, they will also receive offers.
Example 3
Cutoff # is 36
Sublottery 1 - not guaranteed - 24 students eligible
Sublottery 2 - guaranteed - 12 students eligible
The Offered list will NOT be overseated. The students in sublottery 1 and sublottery 2 will all receive offers (cutoff number and student placements both = 36). There is potential for the Offered list to be overseated if students with a guaranteed priority (sublottery 2) are added to the lottery after the initial lottery run.
Example 4
Cutoff # is 36
Sublottery 1 - guaranteed - 45 students eligible
Sublottery 2 - not guaranteed - 12 students eligible
The Offered list will be overseated by 9 students because the 45 sublottery 1 students are eligible for guaranteed placement. They will all receive offers while the 12 students in sublottery 2 will be added to the waiting list.
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