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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you are coming from public schools for example, can you apply to just 2 of these schools as well? [/quote]
No, there is no such restriction.  If you're not in a parish school (and hence not taking the Archdiocese's High School Placement Test in school), I imagine you'd simply take the test at each school you apply to, as if it were the school's own unique test.  Your child may end up taking the same test more than once if you apply to multiple schools that use the HSPT.  I do not believe the schools share information among each other about who has applied (at least not officially), so there's no way for them to even know how many Catholic schools you apply to.

If you are in parish school and want to apply to a high school that you didn't designate as one of your two, it may be worth contacting that school's admissions office to see if they'll let your child take the test separately, as if he were an applicant from a non-parish school.  Not sure if this might constitute a breach of ADW's "rules" or not, but could be worth asking.  It's possible ADW could refuse to send transcripts or some such, but again, worth a shot.[/quote]

So following up on this what kind of preference is given to parochial school students over other applicants?  I've heard stories of parents moving their kids into parish schools for middle school so as to get them into a catholic high school (driven somewhat by economics as catholic HS are significantly cheaper than private HS) so i'm assuming there is some preference.  Also since there is some restrictions on # to apply i assume there is a system here to get the kids into at least one acceptable school. [/quote]

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