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Getting Into NYC High-School: Updated!
Getting Into New York City High-School can be an 18 month long process that regularly drives over 70,000 8th graders and their parents nearly over the edge.
Because NYC has only a handful of zoned high-schools, students can apply to programs of their choice all over the city. But it’s a daunting task to tackle on your own, especially when the process for applying even to public school only isn’t standardized, with different deadlines and requirements, depending on the school or program.
“Getting Into NYC High-School” offers a step by step guide, a timeline, first-hand experiences from kids and parents who survived the process, and insider tips for families applying to:
* Specialized Public High-Schools
* Screened/Selective Public High-Schools
* Ed-Opt Public High-Schools
* Audition/Arts Public High-Schools
* Career & Technical Public High-Schools
* Unscreened Public High-Schools
* Hunter College High-School (with a 7th grade entry point)
* Charter High-Schools
* Independent Private High-Schools
* Religious Private High-Schools
* Special Needs High-Schools
* Homeschooling Options
“Getting Into NYC High-School” offers advice on how to rank your choices, how to prep for entrance exams, how to apply for financial aid, how to transfer and how to appeal your placement. It also includes links to all the forms and resources you need in order to research and apply to the school(s) of your choice.
As an e-book, “Getting Into NYC High-School” is updated every time there is a change to the admissions procedure, and includes a mailing list for parents and students to receive that news directly as soon as it happens.
You can’t risk “Getting Into NYC High-School” without it!
About the Author:
Alina Adams is the author of the best-selling “Getting Into NYC Kindergarten” and host of the “Secrets of NYC Schools” podcast (listen at: www.NYCSchoolSecrets.com). She is a regular contributor to TODAY Show Parenting, Mommy Poppins, Kveller, Red Tricycle, Cafe Mom and The Education Post.
Alina believes there can be no true school choice until ALL parents know ALL their school choices - and the inside secrets of how to get them.
She is a mom of 3 whose children have attended various combinations of public, private, religious, single-sex, co-ed, and gifted New York schools, and the NYT best-selling author of soap-opera tie-ins, figure skating mystery and romance novels. Learn more at www.AlinaAdams.com.
Because NYC has only a handful of zoned high-schools, students can apply to programs of their choice all over the city. But it’s a daunting task to tackle on your own, especially when the process for applying even to public school only isn’t standardized, with different deadlines and requirements, depending on the school or program.
“Getting Into NYC High-School” offers a step by step guide, a timeline, first-hand experiences from kids and parents who survived the process, and insider tips for families applying to:
* Specialized Public High-Schools
* Screened/Selective Public High-Schools
* Ed-Opt Public High-Schools
* Audition/Arts Public High-Schools
* Career & Technical Public High-Schools
* Unscreened Public High-Schools
* Hunter College High-School (with a 7th grade entry point)
* Charter High-Schools
* Independent Private High-Schools
* Religious Private High-Schools
* Special Needs High-Schools
* Homeschooling Options
“Getting Into NYC High-School” offers advice on how to rank your choices, how to prep for entrance exams, how to apply for financial aid, how to transfer and how to appeal your placement. It also includes links to all the forms and resources you need in order to research and apply to the school(s) of your choice.
As an e-book, “Getting Into NYC High-School” is updated every time there is a change to the admissions procedure, and includes a mailing list for parents and students to receive that news directly as soon as it happens.
You can’t risk “Getting Into NYC High-School” without it!
About the Author:
Alina Adams is the author of the best-selling “Getting Into NYC Kindergarten” and host of the “Secrets of NYC Schools” podcast (listen at: www.NYCSchoolSecrets.com). She is a regular contributor to TODAY Show Parenting, Mommy Poppins, Kveller, Red Tricycle, Cafe Mom and The Education Post.
Alina believes there can be no true school choice until ALL parents know ALL their school choices - and the inside secrets of how to get them.
She is a mom of 3 whose children have attended various combinations of public, private, religious, single-sex, co-ed, and gifted New York schools, and the NYT best-selling author of soap-opera tie-ins, figure skating mystery and romance novels. Learn more at www.AlinaAdams.com.
116 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 3, 2016
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July 11, 2024
I started and stopped this book multiple times over the last many months. I wholeheartedly do NOT recommend it to anyone who needs to actually understand the insane NYC HS admissions process. The writing and facts are disorganized and confusing. The author spends a lot of time sniping about the DOE and frustrations with the process. I have no doubt these frustrations are real and shared by many, but they do not help navigate this opaque process and do nothing to reassure. The one redeeming quality of the book are the vignettes from students.
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