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Accepting Offers

If your child has received an offer to a GoCPS program-congratulations! For offers extended during the initial selections round, applicants will need to make a decision to accept their offer through the GoCPS online account by the posted deadline known as the Offer Acceptance Deadline. Offers will expire after this date.

How It Works

  • When initial offers are released, all families who completed a GoCPS application will receive a notification email.
  • If your child receives an offer for either a Choice or Selective Enrollment program, you must choose to accept the offer by the deadline. If no decision is made, the offer(s) will expire and go to the next student on the waitlist.
  • In the initial selections window, families will have three weeks to make a decision on whether to accept their offers. Families will be allowed to change their mind WITHIN this three-week period as much as they need by simply logging into their GoCPS online account and updating their decision.
  • At the end of the three weeks, the Offer Acceptance Deadline will pass. After this deadline, families can choose to decline a previously accepted offer. If a family DECLINES an offer once the Offer Acceptance deadline has passed, they cannot go back and change that decision once submitted. If they decide they want that offer back, they will need to rejoin the waitlist when it opens.

Accepting an Offer

Log into your GoCPS account before the posted deadline.

SUBMIT Click “ Accept ” or “ Decline ” Click “ Submit ” to finalize. STEP 1 STEP 2 Applicants can view the confirmation page on their GoCPS account after they submit their decision. 
Print this page or save it as PDF. If the offer is declined , the seat is offered to the next student on the Rolling Waitlist. Once an offer is accepted , the student will have a seat in the program. The school that the family has accepted will reach 
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Only one offer can be accepted. Accepting an offer will automatically decline all other offers that are open or previously accepted. If you accept an offer for a Choice program, any offers for Selective Enrollment programs will be automatically declined and vice versa.

Accepting an offer does not affect the student’s waitlist status for any CHOICE program. You can accept an offer and if you later receive an offer from a school where your child was waitlisted, you can accept that offer instead (either Choice or SEES).

Accepting a SEES offer will remove you from all other waitlists in that same SEES category. You will remain on the waitlist for programs in other SEES and CHOICE categories.

If you’re unable to log in or apply via phone, contact the GoCPS Hotline before the offer expires to ensure that it is accepted in time.

If a family accepts an offer and later decides that they want to decline it, they can do so.

If you accept an offer from another school and later want your child to stay in their current school, contact OAE for next steps.

decline iconExpired Offers

Offers that are not accepted by the Offer Acceptance Deadline will automatically expire. After the Offer Acceptance Deadline all students must join the rolling wait list in order to be considered for any program not accepted during the Initial Offer Acceptance period.

Related Links

Office of Access & Enrollment (OAE)

773-553-2060

gocps@cps.edu

Chicago Public Schools
42 W. Madison St, 3rd Floor
Chicago, IL 60602