First, touring. As you can see, every school handles touring differently, from when they announce, to how they share info, how many they host, whether in person or virtual or both, if sign ups required or not . . . there are endless variables. And, schools are still figuring things out post Covid. Before Covid there was no virtual touring. Now some schools are choosing to do only that instead of opening their doors for in person options. Lab and Millennium are 2 who’ve gone straight up virtual. Beacon did only virtual the last couple of years - they haven’t announced what they’re doing this year yet.
All this to say - touring is messy:
A bunch of schools are hosting events the day of in person SHSATs.
One of the specialized schools (Queens HS for the Sciences) has most of their open houses after registration closes and one date listed is wrong.
Some schools (Brooklyn Millennium, Frank Sinatra, and LaG so far) have touring info on their calendars but haven’t officially announced them yet.
There is plenty of outdated info out there or registrations to dead links from last season.
Occasionally schools will rise to the occasion and add more options to meet demand. Last year Millennium added more dates later in the fall and the Bards added student led tours at both Manhattan and Queens.
It’s been a few seasons since I’ve seen things filling up so quickly and “selling out.” If there’s a school you definitely want to see, I’d suggest monitoring that/those websites so you can pounce on things in the moment. I get info out as fast as I can but there are lots of families out there searching for info.
Random lottery numbers. The DOE hasn’t announced when random lottery numbers will be released. Last season they were shared, in MySchools on your profile page, a couple of days after applications went live in early October.