GoCPS Basics
True or False: Submitting your GoCPS application on the very first day gives a student a higher chance of being accepted.
Answer: What is False? (There is no benefit to applying early)
Current CPS 8th grade students take the HSAT at this location.
What is their current 8th-grade school?
This type of high school program requires no application and guarantees a seat to students based on their street address.
What is a Neighborhood Program?
True or False: Ranking a school as your #1 choice guarantees you will get an offer there.
What is False?
The GoCPS application window officially opens during this fall month.
What is September?
If a student does not apply to any high school through GoCPS, they are guaranteed a seat in this specific option.
What is the General Education program at their assigned Neighborhood School?
This standard test is used as the entrance exam for the GoCPS high school application process. (not "HSAT")
What is the PreACT 9 Secure?
True or False: A student can select and rank more than one program offered at the exact same high school building.
What is True?
True or False: If a student applies to both Choice and Selective Enrollment categories, their choices in one category affect their selections in the other.
What is False?
(The selection processes for Choice and Selective Enrollment run separately)
Current CPS 8th graders take the HSAT on this specific date.
What is October 7th?
These two components each make up 50% of an applicant's total points.
What are 7th grade final grades and the HSAT score?
These are the four core sections tested on the updated HSAT.
What are English, Math, Reading, and Science?
Whitney Young, Payton, Lane Tech, and Jones are examples of this specific category of high schools.
What are Selective Enrollment High Schools?
If a student is offered a seat at their #2 Choice program, this happens to their position on the waitlist for their #1 Choice program.
Answer: What is they are automatically placed on the waitlist for their #1 ranked program?
The final deadline to submit the GoCPS application is this date.
What is November 13th?
This is the maximum total number of points an applicant can earn on the scoring scale used for points-based Choice and Selective Enrollment programs.
What is 640 points?
HSAT points are calculated by multiplying the composite score by this number, leading to a maximum of 320 points.
What is 10?
IB, CTE, Fine Arts, and Military/Service Leadership Academies all fall under this general high school application category.
What are Choice Programs?
True or False: If you get an offer to your #1 Choice program, you can still opt to stay on the waitlist for your #2 Choice program.
What is False?
(You are taken out of line and not waitlisted for any programs ranked lower than the offer you receive)
True or False: Late applications or program additions are accepted up to two weeks after the November deadline.
What is False?
(No changes or late applications are allowed after the deadline)
The total number of offers a student can receive during the Initial Offer Period.
What is three offers (1 Neighborhood, 1 Choice, and 1 Selective Enrollment)?
This is the total time allotted for taking the updated HSAT
What is 2 hours and 35 minutes?
Across Choice and Selective Enrollment categories, this is the maximum total number of application programs a high school applicant can apply to on GoCPS.
What is 26?
(Up to 20 Choice and up to 6 Selective Enrollment)
If an applicant qualifies for seats at their #2, #4, and #5 Choice programs, GoCPS will grant them an offer to this program.
What is program #2 ?
(the highest-ranked qualified program)
High school application results are released to families during this month.
What is February?