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HIGH SCHOOL ADMISSIONS PROCESS

FULL NYCDOE High School Info 

These are the key dates for families applying during the 2024-2025 school year for admission to the 2025-2026 school year:

  • Tuesday, October 1, 2024: High School Application, LaGuardia Application, and Specialized High Schools Admissions Test (SHSAT) Registration Opens 

  • Friday, October 18, 2024: SHSAT Registration Closes 

  • Wednesday, October 30, 2024: SHSAT School Day Testing 

  • Sat / Sun, November 16-17, 2024: SHSAT Testing (8th grade students not participating in school day testing)

  • Wednesday, December 4, 2024: High School and LaGuardia Applications Close

  • Sat / Sun, December 7-8, 2024: SHSAT Testing (9th grade students)

  • Thursday, March 6, 2025: High School Offer Release

The high school application, LaGuardia application, and Specialized High School Admissions Test (SHSAT) registration are now open!

Log into your MySchools.nyc account apply and register:

  1. If you used MySchools to apply to schools in the past, your account is still active. You can log in using the same email address used then.
    • If you do not have an active account, you will need a unique account creation code to access your child’s high school application. This is printed on your child’s welcome letter, which you can get from their school counselor. 

    • Need help creating an account? Watch this tutorial.

Updates to this year's high school application process:

  • Chances of offer feature in the HS application: 

    • Beginning this fall, high school applicants will have access to a new feature in MySchools that helps them better understand their chance of getting an offer to a program. 

    • For each program, students will see an icon indicating whether they have a high, medium, or low chance of receiving an offer, based on the applicant’s admissions characteristics like grades, priority group, etc. 

    • We have more detailed information about this on the chance of an offer webpage

  • No limit to application choices: 

    • As of this upcoming admissions cycle, students across all grades will now be able to list any number of application choices, an expansion of the original twelve.

    • A complete high school application lists twelve high school options. If there are additional programs a family is interested in, they may add them to their application as a thirteenth choice, fourteenth choice, and so on.

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