Revisiting data on high school admission rates
by Dale Mezzacappa on Oct 05 2011
The Notebook has learned that data provided to it by the District on the percentage of applicants admitted to selective and citywide admission high schools may have been erroneous. As a result,the chart on page 7 of the Fall Guide may give a potentially distorted picture of how hard it is to be admitted to some schools.
The chart compared the total number of students who applied with the total approved and the spaces available, and calculated the percentage of applicants admitted. The numbers were received from the Office of Student Placement.
Officials at three schools have disputed the "total approved" number provided by the District, saying that they actually approved many more students than indicated