NEW YORK—Eighth-graders and their parents descended on Martin Luther King Jr. Educational Campus near Lincoln Center Sunday, narrowing down their list of prospective high schools amid the competitive environment of high school admissions.
Every eighth-grader in the city must apply for high school. Some students know what they want to learn—for example, performing arts—thus having an automatic filter. For others, the wealth of options means narrowing down a specific school can be difficult.
