Next year’s eighth graders will be the first to take the digital version of the Specialized High School Admission Test. Commonly known as the SHSAT, it is the sole basis of entry for eight of ...

Every October, roughly one-third of the eligible eighth-graders in New York City -- between 25,000 and 30,000 students -- take the Standardized High School Admissions Test (SHSAT) for a chance to ...

anti-merit activists have singled out the eight high schools that use the SHSAT as the sole criteria for admissions (and that have produced 14 Nobel Prize winners) as primary targets. They’ve ra ...

The Specialized High School Admissions Test (SHSAT) determines who will get in the doors of these schools. Approximately 28,000 students take the test, but only 5,000 are admitted. The schools ...