The Department of Education has unveiled its long-awaited new admission system, lowering the bar for entry into many competitive high schools.
The city’s high school application process is now a crapshoot — and top grades barely matter.
Amy Nicolas, a straight-A Catholic school eighth-grader, is aiming for Townsend Harris HS in Queens or another top-ranked public school. Under the formula, a student with grades as low as 75 in some classes can land in the highest lottery group with kids who earned 90s across the board. Eight specialized high schools, including Stuyvesant, Bronx Science, Brooklyn Tech and Staten Island Tech, will continue to use an exam, the SHSAT, as their sole entry criterion. Twenty other high schools have gotten permission to use additional essays, interviews, or their own tests to screen candidates, and 25 arts schools will choose students based on auditions.But it means the most diligent students may go unrewarded, the two girls said.
“If you have many students with an 80 average getting in, those schools no longer maintain their previous rigor,” Zakry said. “The school has to match the capabilities of the students. They’re forcing the schools to change. ““Instead of having 20 students for AP Physics, now maybe only five are qualified,” he said. “Guess what the school does? It has to shut down those advanced classes. Economically disadvantaged students who were able to take these college-credit classes can no longer do so.
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