Some screened schools ask for additional materials as part of their rubric and at those schools screened group/lottery numbers becomes less important. Each of these schools has their own admissions rubric and that is found at the link below as well (you’ll see that info at MySchools as well).
The DOE published this year’s list of screened schools asking for additional materials:
Assessments for Screened Schools
You’ll see that some of the materials asks are submitted through MySchools and others are submitted through individual school websites. Don’t worry - I’ll help you keep track of what goes where.
There are 5 schools that take the same essay under consideration. A link to the prompt hasn’t been posted yet. In the past it was a 500 word essay and you could pick between 2 prompts:
East Side Community School
Institute for Collaborative Education
School of the Future
Beacon High School
University Heights Secondary School