Others said the city isn't doing enough to promote diversity in the gifted program.
The Bracken School Readiness Assessment the test being replaced by NNAT had trouble producing diverse classrooms in the gifted program.
Hunter College Elementary School, an elite public gifted program, operates outside the Education Department and has aligned its deadlines with private schools.
The city said parents would be notified quickly of the new results, and the deadline for applying to a gifted program has been pushed back to May 10 from the original deadline of Friday.
Enrollment in the gifted and talented program is a coveted prize, providing advanced classes for the select group of children who qualify.
The shift marks the latest attempt by city officials to address a seemingly intractable problem: How to create equity in the admissions process for its gifted and talented program, which begins in kindergarten and goes through third grade.
I'm currently a freshman at the online high school EPGY (Educational Program for Gifted Youth), run by Stanford University.
The number of students applying for the coveted spots has skyrocketed: Last year, nearly 5, 000 children qualified for a spot in a gifted and talented kindergarten program by scoring in the 90th percentile or above, more than double the total four years ago.
This year, the odds of winning a space in a public gifted and talented kindergarten program were steeper than ever: The number of preschoolers testing in the 97% percentile and above soared by 47%, leaving more than 2, 600 children qualifying for about 400 spots in the city's five citywide kindergarten programs.
As a public high school student at North Hollywood High, she attended a magnet program for highly gifted students.
Slightly easier is getting into each district's gifted-and-talented program.
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In addition, the education department will run a program for about 90 gifted rising eighth-graders called the Dream Big Academy.
For years, private schools have required deposits months before the city releases admissions decisions for its Gifted and Talented elementary-school program.
Thousands of students were incorrectly told they weren't eligible for the city's gifted-and-talented public-school program due to errors by the testing company, city officials said Friday.
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