How ranking works

If you have fewer places available than students who have applied, then you offer places based on the student's ranking. Prospective students are ranked one to n based on a combination of their:

• year, campus and year level
• status ranking group
• priority
• date of original application or subsequent application, depending on the configuration
• gender, depending on the configuration.

Manual versus automatic ranking

If your organisation ranks prospective students automatically:

• The future student's details and relationships are checked and a priority assigned to them. For example, the following relationships are checked:
• siblings who are current students
• parents who are staff members.
• If their details or relationships change later, the changes trigger a re-evaluation and a new priority may be assigned to them.
• Future students who do not match any of the other priorities are assigned a priority of Normal.
  
  Note: The AutoUpdate configuration setting determines whether your organisation ranks prospective students automatically or not. See AutoUpdate configuration setting in the System maintenance manual.

You maintain the valid values for the status and priority in Synergetic lookup tables:

• luFutureStatus
• luFuturePriority.

luFutureStatus lookup table
In the luFutureStatus example below, A and W can be set to the same ranking group.


Note: The SynergyMeaning of a luFutureStatus entry also influences ranking.

See luFutureStatus lookup table in the System maintenance manual.

luFuturePriority lookup table

In the luFuturePriority lookup table you specify the numeric priority (FuturePrioritySeq) given to each entry. The lower the number, the higher the priority. In the example shown, a student receiving a scholarship has the highest priority of 1, as they have been definitely awarded a place.
See luFuturePriority lookup table in the System maintenance manual.