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Magnet Applications:  Merge Ahead

1/18/2017

 
Parent:  I am looking at my submitted applications and one of my children seems to have disappeared.

Me:  Can you give me the student's name?

:: Parent supplies me with the name, and I search through the applications for the student, which is truly nowhere to be found.  ::

Me:  Can you give me your name please?

:: Parent supplies me with their name, and I look up their account information.  Their Dashboard shows one student.  I pull up that student's application, and read the notes on the application. ::

Me:  Ah, okay, I *think* I see what happened.  You submitted an application for John Bob Smith, birthday 07/08/09 with your address and contact information.  You also submitted an application for John Bob Doe, birthday 07/08/09 with your address and the father's contact information.  Upon investigation, it was determined that John Bob Smith and John Bob Doe were the same person -

Parent:  How do you know this?

Me:  You mean besides having the same birthday and address?

Parent:  Yes.

Me:  Among other things, the documents uploaded into the system are the same for both applications.  - Anyway, because it was the same child we merged the two into one.

Parent:  I just wanted him to have a better chance of getting into a good school!

Me:  Unfortunately, we cannot have one child in the system in the system twice.  That would allow them twice as many chances as everyone else, and that's very unfair.

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