![]() ![]() Baruch is a school in high demand it only admitted Group 1 students, and non-DIA-eligible students needed a lottery number better than ‘36’ (cutoff was between ’16' and ‘36’) because of the set-aside, DIA-eligible students had better odds: a student with lottery number ‘3b’ was given an offer (FRL cutoff was between ‘3b’ and ‘6f’, see screened schools survey results below). For instance, consider 02M411 : Baruch College Campus High School: it has a DIA initiative that sets aside 66% of seat for FRL eligible students. However, because the number are not redrawn, there is now a perverse effect where students at the top of the list are all non-DIA-eligible. This would not be a big problem if the lottery number had been redrawn as the students at the top of the waitlist would be a random mix of DIA and non-DIA students. Negative effect on DIA initiatives: The DOE has confirmed that, with the notable exception of the Bard schools, high schools do not keep separate waitlists for DIA-eligible and non-eligible students.It also meant many families had wasted some of their choices on false hope. This was an additional blow for students with bad application lottery numbers who had hoped to have better luck in the waitlist process. This led to unfair situations where students with good placements in the main round were given multiple waitlist offers to popular schools, while students with no match in the main round had no hope to get an offer. Unfairness: Students with bad original random numbers received consistently bad waitlist numbers, students with good original numbers were at the top of many waitlists.This change in published policy has two major drawbacks. Once the screening process moved to a qualified lottery, the behavior of screened school waitlists should have been changed but was not. It is possible it is due to some implementation oversight: before last year screened schools were ranking students on various academic metrics, and waitlists kept the same order. ![]() The reasons for this change in policy was not given. Students who add themselves to the waitlists of these programs will be positioned in their admissions group (1–4). Waitlist Positions for SCREENED Programs, NO ASSESSMENTS - High School Only Students who are automatically on the waitlists for these programs remain positioned in the same order as during the admissions process, by admissions group 1–4 (determined by students’ grades) and within that group, by their application random number. In early July 2022, the DOE updated the waitlist information on their website and confirmed that for screened schools without assessment, the original lottery number would be used for waitlists despite what had originally been announced: The process that had been repeated during DOE Zoom admission events, and noted on the DOE web site as late as early July 2022, stated that:įor waitlists, each applicant receives a new random number for each waitlist they are on. In July 2022 the DOE confirmed what many parents has suspected based on their waitlist numbers. With fewer students applying, it would be expected that fewer would not get one of their 12 choices, however over 3,000 fewer students than last year were matched and the number of unmatched students increased slightly (from 4,951 to 5,246). While the results are similar to that of last year, it is worth noting that there were about 3,000 fewer applicants this year, a decrease of 4% compared to last year. Match rates by race and income status is available here. Some districts had worst results: like last year, students in D2 received the worst outcome, with 18% being unmatched many districts also had a high rate of unmatched students in the main HS application round (16% in D3, 14% in D26, 12% in D21, D22, D25, 9% in D15, D20, D24, D25, D30), and 7% of applicants were unmatched citywide. The match rates, shown in the table below, are similar to last year’s: approximately 5,000 students were not matched to any of their choices citywide. The DOE Office of Enrollment provided detailed match rate statistics to the Citywide Council on High Schools (CCHS) and District Community Eduction Councils (CEC). (new information as of July 25 2022) Match Rate 2022 HS Admission Cycle Statistics and Processes
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