Hogwarts Weight Loss Challenge [Term 21] - 8 Week Challenge *Challenge starts August 31st*

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is approaching our 21st term and we're opening up the application to anyone would like to apply

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

Basics:

• Term 21 will be an 8-week term themed around Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
• The term will run from Friday, August 31st, 2018 (with starting weigh-in starting that Friday and the full activities beginning on Monday) through Sunday, October 28th, 2018. So you should expect to join by Friday, August 31st to keep your place as a student.
• You will receive notification via owl (PM/email) if you have been accepted or put on the wait list. Owls should go out on Tuesday, August 28th (and should be received by the end of Wednesday, August 29th) so you will have ~48 hours to join the challenge. If you do NOT join within 48 hours or respond to the prefect that PM'd you, then your spot will be given to someone on the wait list. So make sure to respond to your acceptance PM to hold your space
• 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 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, please fill out the Term 21 application here
-If you have trouble submitting the google form, feel free to PM me your answers and I will submit them for you!

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. We strongly encourage you to join Hogsmeade Village - a group for current/former students and those on the wait list. We use this group to communicate with everyone between terms as well as communicate with current wait listers during a 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 - especially since current students get first chance to apply, then anyone who remained on the wait list gets a second chance to apply), 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

***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 a few 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 required 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,
Kisame29
(Hogwarts Deputy Headmistress)