WAITLIST UPDATE
Families who were waitlisted at their zoned kindergarten recently received letters offering an alternate placement for the fall. The Department of Education sent 980 alternate offers to students six weeks earlier than last year, when waitlists were also a problem. Read more
D-Day
For any teenager bound for higher education, it is always a relief to receive acceptance letters from various schools. Yet, for all the advice that shows how to create a standout application, there is little that addresses what to do when the hard work pays off: How does one evaluate and select the right college or university, and what happens if a student is placed on a waitlist? Read more
WAITLIST UPDATE
Every zoned student on the kindergarten waitlist for P.S. 166 has been given a space at the West 89th Street school.
“There are no lists because the department worked with the Community Education Council to rezone the area,” said Department of Education spokesperson Andrew Jacob.
In May, 31 area students were on hold for spots at P.S. 166, the only District 3 school with a waitlist for zoned students.
Across town on the Upper East Side, the problem was much worse, with 152 students on waitlists in May; those lists have now shrunk, but there are still 63 students waiting for spots in their zoned kindergartens.
