Just learned that you can sign up online for the Bard High School assessment tests and make reservations for the open houses.
http://www.bard.edu/bhsec/admission/apply.shtml
Bard requires their applicants take their writing and math assessment test as part of the admissions process. The test is offered on Tuesdays in September, a Saturday or Sunday in the middle of October or a Tuesday in November.
Are you familiar with www.insideschools.org? Clara Hemphill, the author of the public school guides, is involved in this great website. It provides information on individual schools that the DOE website won’t have. Open house schedules for both the middle and high schools from all boroughs will be listed there.
If there’s an open house that you and your child really want to attend, don’t wait for it to be posted on insideschools; visit the school’s website or call them directly early and often. Open houses for the most popular schools fill up fast.
Since we’re on the subject, what do you think of Bard’s accelerated Early College program? Bard HS (on the Lower East Side) and Bard II (Long Island City) have rigorous curriculums; four years of high school courses are squeezed into two years, leaving the third and fourth years there for college–level study. One graduates with an Associate’s Degree, the credits of which are recognized at Bard College upstate and other schools.
What do you think? Are children being pushed too hard and too fast? Do you or do you know anyone who attends?
And most important for cash–strapped families: what other colleges accept those credits?
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