CHICAGO — Parents and kids across Chicago rushed home Monday to check their mailboxes for admission or rejection letters from Chicago Public Schools' 11 selective-enrollment schools.
All decision letters were sent out from CPS headquarters on Friday, Feb. 26, CPS officials said. All families should receive a letter by Friday, March 4, at the latest, but families are expected to start receiving them as early as Monday.
The admission process involves a complicated point-based system to that considers students' grades, standardized test scores taken during 7th grade and a high school admissions test.
At the most competitive school, Walter Payton College Prep, students with scores below 896 out of a possible 900 points will be rejected this year.
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