Now that we’re in the midst of OH announcements, you may find it hard to keep track of all the open houses you’ve signed up for. Some schools will send a confirmation emails and others will not. Here are some NYC-SIFT specific suggestions on how to stay organized:
- “Favorite” your schools and programs. Clicking the heart icon will save them to the “Favorites” page.
- Use the “Notes” feature. Now that you’ve favorited your schools and programs, you can add notes to yourself by clicking the notepad icon next to the school in the “Favorites” page.
- “Mark” open houses. On any school or program page, you can click the star icon next to the OH you’ve signed up for. Any time that school or program shows up in a list, a star will also appear.
- Auto-populate your calendar with open houses. If you use a calendar app (Google, Apple, Outlook), you can subscribe to NYC-SIFT’s iCalendar feed which will automatically populate your calendar app with OH dates. If you click on the calendar icon on the right hand side of the “Favorites” page, you will get a URL that will subscribe you to OHs for every favorited school and program. If you would like more control over the iCalendar feed, you can specify specific school DBNs. For example, the base URL is:
https://nycsift.com/api/ical.phtml?
If you wanted to add all of Stuyvesant’s OHs, the URL would change to:
https://nycsift.com/api/ical.phtml?dbn=02M475
If you wanted to also add Frank Sinatra’s, the URL would change to:
https://nycsift.com/api/ical.phtml?dbn=02M475,30Q501
To add additional schools, just append additional DBNs separated by commas.