Learn how siblings are handled in a lottery.
It is common for lottery policies to include sibling preferences. Enroll provides a variety of sibling options and logic to match your process needs. Siblings typically fall into three categories: Siblings Attending, Siblings Applying, and Multiples.
What's included in this article?
- Building Sibling Priorities and Adding them to a Lottery Design
- Siblings Attending in the Lottery
- Siblings Applying in the Lottery
- Multiples in the Lottery
Building Sibling Priorities and Adding them to a Lottery Design
The linked articles below describe step-by-step how to create priorities and/or flags for siblings:
Once your sibling priority is built...
... and added to your lottery design,
then, your sibling priorities are available to be assigned to applications based on form answers, and once all of the conditions of your sibling priority are met.
Siblings Attending in the Lottery
For the tiered/prioritized lottery design above, during the lottery run any eligible applications that earned the priority Sibling Attending Any School in the Organization will be placed on the grade level lottery list above applications that earned the priority Employee Child, or applications that earned no priorities.
Example: Applicants to grade K at Promise Academy
- Kiera: identifies brother James in her application as currently attending grade 4 at Promise Academy. Kiera's application is automatically assigned the priority:
Sibling Attending Any School in the Organization. - Samuel: does not meet the criteria for any priorities.
- Jessica: does not meet the criteria for any priorities at this time, but has a sibling applying (Alejandro) to grade 3 at Promise Academy.
- Alba: identifies mother in her application as an employee at Promise Academy. Kiera's application is automatically assigned the priority:
Employee Child
All applications are marked as Eligible for the lottery. As a result of the lottery run, the grade K applicants are ordered on the lottery list in priority/sub-lottery order:
| Student | Priority | Sub-lottery |
|---|---|---|
| Kiera | Sibling Attending Any School in the Org | 1 |
| Alba | Employee Child | 2 |
| Samuel | No priority | N/A (placed randomly) |
| Jessica | No priority | N/A (placed randomly) |
Siblings Applying in the Lottery
The priority Sibling Applying + Accepted will not be considered for placement during the lottery as this priority logic is configured to be assigned once the following conditions are met:
- Sibling is Applying to and Offer is Accepted at Any School in the Org
- Since Offer Acceptance only takes place after lotteries are run and results are published, the priority:
Sibling Applying + Acceptedwill only be assigned post-lottery
Using the same lottery design and sample students above:
If Jessica's brother, Alejandro, is offered and accepts a seat in 3rd grade, the system will then assign the priority: Sibling Applying + Accepted to Jessica's application on the grade K lottery list. The system recognizes that:
- Jessica and Alejandro are both students in the same Guardian account
- Alejandro has an accepted offer at a school in the organization
If the lottery setting below is enabled in your site (turned ON by SchoolMint staff on an internal tab):
- Always Keep Lottery Lists Grouped by Lottery Design
then the newly added priority Sibling Applying + Accepted will move Jessica up the grade K lottery list above Samuel, who has no priorities:
| Student | Priority | Sub-lottery |
|---|---|---|
| Kiera | Sibling Attending Any School in the Org | 1 |
| Alba | Employee Child | 2 |
| Jessica | Sibling Applying + Accepted (brother accepted in grade 3) | 3 |
| Samuel | No Priority | N/A |
To gain greater visibility into lottery list movements for linked siblings, we recommend building a Sibling Applying report. Reference this help article to learn how.
Multiples in the Lottery
On the Settings > Manage Lotteries > Lottery Settings page in the bottom right corner, the option Place Multiples Together is available to be turned on. This setting is used to ensure that siblings applying who are Multiples (twins, triplets, quads, etc.) will be placed sequentially on the lottery list.
Multiples must always be:
- in the same guardian account, and
- applying to the same grade, and
- applying to the same program, and
- all multiples must be in "Submitted" status
- if twin A's application is in a "Not Submitted" status, twin B's "Submitted" application will be excluded from the lottery
Additional conditions of "Same Address" or "Twin Setting" may also be selected to further define a Multiple.
Note: If both additional options are selected, then siblings. must meet both requirements to be considered a multiple.
When the lottery is run with the Place Multiples Together setting enabled, the system will keep the multiples together (placed consecutively one after the other) on the lottery list.
In the event that there is only one (1) seat remaining on the offered list but there are two multiples to be placed, the system will place Twin 1 on the offered list and Twin 2 first on the waiting list.
| Claire | Offered - Pending |
| Daisy | Offered - Pending |
| Twin 1 | Offered - Pending |
| Twin 2 | WL - 1 |
| Thomas | WL -2 |
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