One application. Unlimited potential.

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To be included in the lottery, the application for the 2026–2027 school year opens on October 1, 2025 and closes on March 1, 2026. You may still apply after the deadline but will be placed in line in the order that your application was received.

An application can be submitted online anytime after the deadline but will not be included in the lottery and will be entered in the order it was received.

First, create a family profile. Once this is done you will be able to apply to as many schools on your application as you would like.

If you already have a family profile, you will use this same login information each year that you apply. Take time to decide what best suits your student.

Once you submit your application you will be entered into a lottery for each of the schools you chose. If a school has more applications than seats available, they must run a lottery for those seats. A lottery is simply a randomized computer generated list of names that assigns positions for the seats available and for the order of the waitlist. If a school has less applications than seats available, all applicants will be made an offer.

The lottery results will be available and made public on March 9, 2026, at 4pm and will be sent to you via your preferred communication method.

If you submit an application after March 1, 2026, your application will be added to the waitlist in the order that it was received.

The school(s) you applied to will contact you when they have available space.

You will either be made an offer or be placed on a waitlist. You can receive multiple offers, but you can only accept one of the offers.

Once you accept an offer, you will need to decline the others and any waitlist offer for a school you have ranked lower than the school where you are accepting a seat. You can, however, remain on a waitlist for a school that you may have ranked higher than the school you accepted an offer for. If you are made an offer from the waitlist at a later date for a school you ranked higher, you can accept that offer but you will be removed from any other school that you previously accepted a seat with. The system will only allow you to hold one seat at a time and will give you the best option for your highest ranked school.

Once you accept your seat within the app, you will receive enrollment instructions via text and/or email. You will complete your enrollment with the one school you have accepted a seat to. Please note that your seat is not secure until enrollment is complete.