Resolve Offers Example for Fair Banding Non OAA Receivers

Where there is a place available in a band that can't be filled within that band, One looks to see if there are any ranked students with a current offer status of N (No Offer) or W (Waiting List) in any band of higher priority than the current band. Any such students are pulled in from the higher bands.

Example

A receiver has five bands.

A place in band 3 has been freed up by the Resolve Offers process. One looks to fill this place with a student from band 2.

When pulling a student from the higher priority band (band 2), One looks to see if there is at least one ranked student waiting (i.e. a student with status N (No Offer) or W (Waiting List) in the higher band).

One pulls the student who has the lowest test score of all the students who are currently in band 2 and have an offer status of Y (Allocated), A (Accepted), P (Provisional), O (Offered), N (No Offer) or W (Waiting List). This student is then assigned rank one in their new band (band 3), and is given a status of Y (Allocated) if this is their first preference or P (Provisionally Allocated) if not.

If there is no ranked student (i.e. a student with a status of N (No Offer) or W (Waiting List)) waiting in band 2, then One checks for ranked students who are waiting in the next band up (band 1).

If such students are found, One looks that the students in band 1 whose offer status is either Y, A, P, O, N or W, and pulls the student from that group with the lowest test score into band 2. One then pulls the band 2 student with the lowest test score (where the offer status is one of Y, A, P, O, N or W) into band 3.

For bands 2 and 3, One assigns a rank of 1 to the pulled preference and increments the existing ranks by one, ensuring that the students are allocated/provisionally allocated as appropriate. Students are only pulled into adjacent bands.

If there are no ranked waiting (N, W) students within any higher priority bands than the band with the place available, then One checks whether there any ranked waiting (N, W) students in the next lowest priority band. In this example, One checks band 4.

If there are any ranked waiting students in the lower band, then One pulls the student with the highest test score (where the offer status is one of Y, A, P, O, N or W) into band 3. One assigns a rank of one more than the lowest ranked preference already in the band to the pulled preference, (e.g. if the lowest ranked preference was rank 9, then the pulled preference would be assigned rank 10) and allocates/provisionally allocates the place available as appropriate.

If there are no ranked waiting (N, W) students within band 4, One checks whether there are any such students in band 5. If so, then One pulls the student with the highest test score in band 5 (where the offer status is one of Y, A, P, O, N or W) into band 4.

One then pulls the student with the highest test score in band 4 (where the offer status is one of Y, A, P, O, N or W) into band 3 to fill the place available. One assigns a new rank of one more than the existing lowest rank within the band to the pulled preferences and ensures that the students are allocated/provisionally allocated as appropriate in both bands.

If there are no ranked waiting (N, W) students at all, then the place is left unfilled.