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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And the NYC middle school process is a shit show. [/quote]

It’s not that bad nowadays, they no longer have much in the way of competitive applications and it’s mostly lotteried - assuming your kid gets decent grades in 4th, your baseline with a bad lottery number is the Baruch or Wagner screened programs, which are both perfectly nice.[/quote]

What changes if you get a good lottery number for middle school? And do you happen to know if screened programs at Wagner/Baruch are lottery if you get decent grades in 4th? [/quote]

This is D2-specific - since that includes the UES - but if you’re in the top 1/4-1/3 or so you’d have a strong likelihood of getting into one of the schools of choice like Salk/Lab/ESMS/Clinton.

For the screened programs, GPA matters more than lottery number - 4.0 with a terrible number beats a 3.75 with a fantastic one - but in practice I think like 80% of the kids who rank one of them and don’t get in somewhere that they ranked higher get in, at least if you go by the data on MySchools. So it’s more that they exclude kids with bad grades than that they only take kids with very good grades.[/quote]

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