<p>NYC's high school process is crazy. There's like 500 schools to pick from with all different themes and requirements, some have tests, and you list 12 on an application and hope for the best.</p>
<p>South Carolina doesn’t have school choice.</p>
<p>For this reason, I went to a private school.</p>
<p>I’m envious of New York’s system. In my county, we had nine high schools, and I was only allowed to go to one. Otherwise I had to pay tuition to go to another. And my county only has one charter school and it only started a couple of years ago and only has k-7 right now.</p>
<p>It was right across the street from my elementary school, even though the two schools aren’t affiliated. Looking back, I wish I had looked more carefully at other schools before arbitrarily deciding on mine, but what’s done is done.</p>
<p>Edit: Forgot to mention my primary and secondary schools were both private. Same reason as AUGirl.</p>
<p>I didn’t. I go where my address allowed me too. Since I’m right on the edge I’d two districts, there were actually three schools I was eligible for, but two of them sucked and the other one was affiliated with my middle school. I hate California’s education system.</p>
<p>You get to choose schools? Where I live, people are zoned to schools.</p>
<p>I got zoned to a school. However, if I was living in a city, I would probably just attend the best (academic) magnet program that I got into or perhaps whatever school was closer to my house.</p>
<p>Ah. I remember I once wanted to attend a very good academy-based school outside my district (with a very high API score), but my district wouldn’t let me go out of district. I was disappointed since I desperately did not want to go to my home school (the school near my house) for various different reasons. Finally, I decided to apply to a magnet school. In California, you can only apply to one magnet school. It kind of makes me want to move to New York, but I digress. Finally, I narrowed it down to a science magnet at a very ghetto school, and I’m very glad I made that decision. :)</p>
<p>same here in Kentcuky, funny thing is, about 89% of the high schools here are garbage, fortunately i got into the other good 11% :)</p>
<p>There are zoned schools in NYC too, but they usually suck, though each school ha different programs, like scholars or something. There are schools that are completely random, some that only look at one admissions test, others have auditions and their own tests, some look at grades, etc etc etc.</p>
<p>Some themes include art, music, engineering, math, international studies, humanities, law, marine biology, the list goes on :P</p>
<p>I live in the country so once you’re in high school street address don’t count anymore because there’s only one large school. The people you see in kindergarten crying, eating, and playing are usually the people you’ll graduate with. Also, private school is not an option since it doesn’t go that far. So then you got home-schooling and online school as your only choices if you don’t like the local one.</p>
<p>Zoned, baby mm yeah</p>
<p>Fortunately, I am zoned to a great school. You can switch schools if you do a certain program @ a different school, like IB, Mechanics, etc. IB is the most popular to switch schools. My school has Video Broadcasting, so if you’d want to go here for it, I suppose you’re allowed to.</p>
<p>I wish I could pick a school! Here in beautiful Iowa, you go to your neighborhood school. Mine isn’t terrible, just full of a lot of athletes and not a lot of intelligent people. Private school isn’t really an option unless you’re catholic and wanna drive 30 minutes to school.</p>