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Appendices.pdf - NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.

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u u u Auditioning for LaGuardia<br />

High School<br />

u If you are interested in applying to one or more of the six<br />

programs at LaGuardia High School, review the audition<br />

requirements listed on page 10 of this h<strong>and</strong>book <strong>and</strong> also in<br />

the Directory of the New York City Public High Schools <strong>and</strong><br />

prepare for your auditions.<br />

u To audition for one or more of the programs at LaGuardia<br />

High School, inform your guidance counselor of your intention<br />

to audition <strong>and</strong> indicate for which studio(s) you wish to audition.<br />

Your guidance counselor will provide you with an<br />

Audition Ticket prior to the audition date.<br />

u You must also complete the New York City Public High<br />

School Admissions Application. On your High School<br />

Admissions Application you will be required to indicate the<br />

LaGuardia High School studio(s) for which you wish to be<br />

considered based on your audition.<br />

u u u Notification Information<br />

u In February 2012, you will be notified as to whether or not<br />

you received an offer(s) to the Specialized High Schools. If<br />

you qualify for an offer to one of the Specialized High Schools<br />

based on your test score <strong>and</strong>/or audition, then your score <strong>and</strong><br />

your ranking of schools will be used to determine your offer.<br />

u If you audition for one or more of the programs at LaGuardia<br />

High School <strong>and</strong> take the SHSAT, it is possible for you to<br />

receive an offer to one of the Specialized High Schools <strong>and</strong><br />

one or more of the programs at LaGuardia High School.<br />

u If you receive an offer to a Specialized High School you<br />

may, at the same time, receive a match to one of the other<br />

high school choices that you submitted on your New York City<br />

High School Admissions Application. At this time you may<br />

accept either your Specialized High School offer or your other<br />

high school offer.<br />

u u u Admissions Process<br />

Specialized High Schools Admissions Test<br />

(SHSAT)<br />

The process is designed to match students based on<br />

their SHSAT scores <strong>and</strong> how they ranked the Specialized<br />

High Schools.*<br />

u Acceptance to a Specialized High School is based first on<br />

the student’s test score, then on the priority order in which the<br />

student placed the Specialized High Schools <strong>and</strong> on seat<br />

availability.<br />

u All scores of the students taking the test are ranked from<br />

highest score to lowest score.<br />

u The student with the highest score is placed in his/her first<br />

choice (highest prioritized school).<br />

u Starting from the highest score on down, each student, in<br />

turn, is placed in his/her highest prioritized school in which seats<br />

are still available. Therefore, if all the seats in the student’s firstchoice<br />

school have been offered to students who scored higher,<br />

he/she is placed in his/her second-choice school if seats are<br />

available. If all the seats in his/her second-choice school have<br />

been given to students who scored higher, the student is offered<br />

a seat in his/her third-choice school if there are still seats available,<br />

<strong>and</strong> so on. This process continues until there are no seats<br />

available in any of the eight Specialized High Schools.<br />

From year to year, the number of offers <strong>and</strong> projected seats for<br />

each Specialized High School may be subject to an increase<br />

or decrease based on school enrollment.<br />

*This process was implemented beginning with the entering class of<br />

September 2003.<br />

u u u Additional SHSAT Information<br />

Alternate Test Dates<br />

u If your test date conflicts with a religious observance, please<br />

notify your school counselor immediately after receiving your<br />

test date, <strong>and</strong> an alternate test date will be arranged.<br />

u If you are ill <strong>and</strong> unable to take the test on your scheduled<br />

date, when you return to school immediately notify your counselor,<br />

present medical documentation, <strong>and</strong> request to take the<br />

SHSAT on the Make-Up Test Day. Only valid make-up requests<br />

submitted to counselors with the required documentation by<br />

Wednesday, November 9, 2011 will be considered. Students<br />

will NOT be admitted to the make-up test without a valid<br />

Admission Ticket for the Make-Up Test Day.<br />

u Before you begin the test, you will be asked to read <strong>and</strong><br />

sign a statement indicating that you are well enough to take<br />

the test <strong>and</strong> are taking it at the appropriate grade level. If you<br />

do not feel well, advise the test proctor immediately;<br />

do not begin the test, <strong>and</strong> do not sign the statement.<br />

Once you have begun the test, you may not—either then or at<br />

a later date—request a make-up test because of illness. Any<br />

requests for a make-up test made after you have begun<br />

the test will not be honored.<br />

Special Needs Students<br />

Students classified by the Committee on Special Education as<br />

having a disability or students with approved 504 Plans may<br />

be eligible for test accommodation(s) if prescribed in their<br />

Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) or approved 504<br />

Plans. The student’s current school, including private <strong>and</strong><br />

parochial schools, is responsible for submitting the IEP <strong>and</strong>/or<br />

approved 504 Plan documentation in the fall during the SHSAT<br />

registration process. Please note that the use of a calculator or<br />

mathematics tables is not allowed for the Mathematics section<br />

because the test measures students’ proficiencies involving calculations.<br />

Similarly, because the Verbal section of the test measures<br />

reading comprehension, passages may not be read aloud<br />

in the Verbal section.<br />

Students with special needs or approved 504 Accommodations<br />

should check their Admission Ticket immediately <strong>and</strong> make<br />

sure they are scheduled to test on the appropriate date (see<br />

page 9) with the appropriate accommodations. Inform your<br />

counselor immediately if there are any concerns.<br />

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