How the Enrollment Lottery Works
The American Academy enrollment lottery will be run on December 5th (or the first school day thereafter should the lottery date fall on a weekend). All students entered in the American Academy lottery waitlist by 11:59 pm on December 4th are included in the lottery on December 5th. For more information on our lottery procedure, please review the American Academy Enrollment Policy.
American Academy has contracted with a third-party vendor, SchoolMint, who offers an online waitlist application, lottery and enrollment platform. The lottery is programmed to mirror our school’s priorities and requirements as outlined in our policy. American Academy staff and leadership review the submission of waitlist applications, programming of the lottery design, and lottery results. Once results are verified, enrollment offers are automatically generated via the platform.
To ensure the school's waitlist database is current, families must reapply each year they wish to be included in the lottery. Families that applied in a prior year will be removed from the waitlist for future lotteries on September 1 (or the last school day prior should September 1 fall on a weekend) of each year. On September 2 (or the school day following the waitlist 'clean'), you may add your family back to the waitlist.
If your family was offered a spot at any time and you did not respond or declined the offer, your family was removed from the waitlist. It is a family's responsibility to submit a waitlist application via SchoolMint Enroll if you are still interested in enrollment.
When an offer is accepted by your student, whether it’s at the campus of your first choice or last choice, your student will automatically be removed from the waitlists at any other campuses you may have applied to. There is no option to remain on the waitlist at other campuses after accepting an offer. If you wish to wait for an opening at a different campus, you will need to decline the offer you received; you will then be removed from the waitlist at the campus that generated the offer, and you will forfeit your place in line for that campus. There is no guarantee you will receive an offer from other campuses and there is a risk of not being offered enrollment in the future.
The registrar's office will begin making email and/or text offers (using the information provided to us in your SchoolMint account), on the day following the lottery. Upon receipt of an offer of enrollment, parents have 72 hours (time-stamped) to accept or decline that offer. Upon accepting an offer of enrollment, parents will have 5 calendar days to turn in all completed enrollment paperwork.