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Match Day: High School Offers Bring Excitement and Anxiety to Eighth Graders

Students wait to enter their high school in Elmhurst Queens on Sept. 13, 2021. New York City is changing the competitive admissions criteria for high schools, but keeping certain geographic priorities based on a student’s home borough or zone.

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. For years, Anthony Block De Jesus, an eighth grader at the School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Brooklyn, has been dreaming of a career on Broadway. He’s hopeful that he’s on his way: He learned on Thursday he’d been admitted to the vocal […]

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