Maximizing your high school experience

Maximizing your high school experience

By Tony Natelli As you embark on your next adventure, high school, there are some concrete things that you can do to make your high school experience run smoothly and productively. Freshman year in high school is the time to become acclimated to, for most of you, a...
Alternative Educational Options: Are They for You?

Alternative Educational Options: Are They for You?

By Sara Hassani   The changing landscape of educational options for junior high and high school students has opened exciting new vistas to students and their parents. Greater opportunities than ever before exist for students to enjoy an alternative, personalized...

High School Choice: A School’s Perspective

May 2015 Guest Blog: High School Choice: A School’s Perspective By Alexandra Hancock Consider this math: On average, a 9th grader is in school from 8:00 AM – 3:00 PM, so 7 hours. On a weekday, a typical 9th grader goes to bed around 10:00 PM and wakes up at 6:30...
Top June Tips For NYC 7th Graders

Top June Tips For NYC 7th Graders

With just a few weeks left in the school year, I am getting a lot of questions from 7th grade families asking when the high school process starts, or what they can be doing now to make progress with the high school search.   Other families tell me they think June...
School Choice vs. Strategy – Do You Have Both?

School Choice vs. Strategy – Do You Have Both?

It’s relatively easy to pick and find schools you like or have heard good things about. This is what the vast majority of families do when they make choices in the NYC high school admissions process.   For most 6th or 7th grade families, this means asking...