Lottery: Lottery Instructions
How the registration lottery works:
Lottery stage opens (9am on Day 1):
To add selections in OASIS, please see this UserVoice article. You may submit your preferences any time while the lottery stage is open. Within this window, it does not matter if you save your preferences sooner or later. The lottery does not run on a first-come, first-served basis.
Note:
- Waitlist electives cannot be selected during a lottery (with the exception of R4R during the R4R lottery).
- Selections for later months will be removed. (You should not be able to add lottery selections for later months; the placeholder course for a month will be removed before that lottery opens.)
- You can but do not need to add courses with no enrollment maximums as a lottery selection (i.e. Board Prep, Interviews).
Lottery stage closes (noon on Day 2):
OASIS will attempt to place you in one elective from your selections.
Once the lottery stage closes at noon and we run the lottery, OASIS will assign each student a priority number at random. OASIS will make one assignment maximum per student for each lottery stage based on your selection rankings and the number of spots available in the course. Once a course is filled, no additional students will be placed in the course—OASIS will skip to the next available course on your list.
Lottery results are released (5pm on Day 2):
At 5pm, we will release the results in OASIS. Once lottery results are released, you will be able to add and/or drop electives in OASIS for this lottery stage until 4 weeks (28 days) prior to the elective start date (but not while another lottery stage is open/running).
Note:
- The current year in OASIS will be closed while the lottery is being processed between noon and 5pm.
- Once lottery results are released, you will also now be able to add yourself to waitlists corresponding to this lottery stage (but not while another lottery stage is open/running).
- After the R4R lottery, R4R will become a waitlist course, and you must add yourself to the waitlist if you want to switch enrollment between March and April. The waitlist will be considered on a first-come, first-served basis.