10.24.2013

Non-sexual Perversity in NYC. HS Applications Process, miscellany



Perversity #1 of the NYC HS Application Process

Making your kid go out to Queens on a Saturday to take the Bard Early College HS admissions test, then dearly hoping he doesn't get called back for an interview so you don't have to drag him out to Queens again for an Open House. 

But still feeling like there's No Room at the Inn as you try to register repeatedly for the Bard Manhattan tour when you, dizzy with uncharacteristic optimism, click on this (it says "FULL or near capacity." Or near capacity. Near!) many, many times a day:


Only to get this dreaded message, many, many times a day.