Holidays at Hogwarts [Term 17] - 5 Week Challenge

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is approaching our 17th term and we're opening up the application to anyone would like to apply This will be our second Holiday at Hogwarts term - a special shorter term aimed at helping students stay healthy through the approaching holidays.

First, some information about what to expect from your term at Hogwarts:

Basics:

• Term 17 will be a special 5-week challenge that will be themed around the holidays (from all the books!) at Hogwarts. So it will not be themed around one book, but the holidays in general. After the New Year, we will return to our usual format with a term inspired by the 2nd book.
• The term will run from Monday, November 13th (with starting weigh-in on Friday, November 10th through Sunday, November 12th) through Sunday, December 17th. So you should expect to join by Friday, November 10th before term starts.
• **You will receive notification via owl (PM) if you have been accepted or put on the wait list. Owls should go out on ~11/8*** so please be patient!
• We have a variety of challenges including food/dietary challenges (Potions), trivia (Defense Against the Dark Arts), and physical challenges (Quidditch), as well as other challenges including some based around the term's theme.
• All players will be sorted into houses. These are your teams - look to each other for advice, support, and motivation. Houses may have around 25-30 students/house, potentially more depending on the amount of interest we receive.
• Each week, players will weigh themselves on either Friday, Saturday, or Sunday (EST). Weight loss will be totaled up (not by pounds lost, but by percentage, similar to the Muggle television show Biggest Loser) for each house.
• Houses will be awarded house points based on challenges completed each week.
• The House Cup will be awarded to the house with the most points at the end of the term!

For those interested in enrolling in Hogwarts, here is the application form for you to complete: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1hO9RA6gkkNaPwJdC_ybCMEfZqrzC4TTc6a57a4TU5TM
-If you have trouble submitting the google form, feel free to PM me your answers and I will submit them for you! If you are worried if your application was received, you may also PM me and I will let you know if we received your application

We encourage you to submit your application as early as possible to ensure you don't miss out on a place at the school. In order to maintain a similar number of students in each house, students may be invited to join houses other than their first choice. If you list a dealbreaker house (or indicate that you only want your first choice), that will be respected, but you will be less likely to get a place at Hogwarts due to space availability.

Please be assured that if we are unable to sort you into a house at this stage, we will place you on the wait list for any openings that arise throughout the term. If you stay on the wait list throughout the term (which happens to some potential students due to the amount of interest in the challenge), then you will be invited to join the next term before it gets posted on the forums which pretty much guarantees that you will get in that term if you apply before it is posted on the forums since the roster fills up quickly once we post here

Once you have been accepted, a prefect will contact you and you will receive an invitation to the School group and your House Common Room here on MFP. Acceptance owls (as well as Wait List owls) are planned to be sent out around ~11/8/17 (shortly before term will begin). If you are worried about whether your application was received before than, feel free to send me a PM and I can confirm if it was received.

***If you see this thread after the challenge has begun and want to apply, you may use the googleform application since it will place you on the wait list (although please PM @Kisame29 to be added to the wait list if it has been than 3 weeks since this post).

Hogwarts is an equal opportunity school and has openings available for people with all levels of ability, as well as places for students who are maintaining or gaining weight. There are always modifications allowed on the main tasks to allow students of all fitness levels participate.

Questions may be posted here, although if you would like a quick answer please send me a PM! I hope to see many of you join us at Hogwarts

Sincerely yours,
Kisame29 (Hogwarts Headgirl)