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, the system 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. The systemlooks to fill this place with a student from band 2.

When pulling a student from the higher priority band (band 2), the system 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).

The system 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 the system checks for ranked students who are waiting in the next band up (band 1).

If such students are found, the system 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. The system 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, a rank of 1 is assigned 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 the system checks whether there any ranked waiting (N, W) students in the next lowest priority band. In this example, the system checks band 4.

If there are any ranked waiting students in the lower band, then the student with the highest test score (where the offer status is one of Y, A, P, O, N or W) is pulled into band 3. A rank of one more than the lowest ranked preference already in the band is assigned 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, the system checks whether there are any such students in band 5. If so, then the student with the highest test score in band 5 (where the offer status is one of Y, A, P, O, N or W) is pulled into band 4.

The student with the highest test score in band 4 (where the offer status is one of Y, A, P, O, N or W) is then pulled into band 3 to fill the place available. A new rank of one more than the existing lowest rank within the band to the pulled preferences is assigned 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.