nyc: I am a girl and I will be moving to NYC from San Diego by junior year.|||Well, except for a few "specialty" schools that you have to apply to get into (and that's very hard to do), all the other Public Schools in New York City are assigned by district (see link, below), so, which school you go to will mostly be determined by where you LIVE, not by where you WANT to go, sorry. Good luck!... :-D|||There is a test to get into the good high schools that the other person listed. You might want to look into some of the catholic schools.|||Stuyvesant HS Bronx Science HS Brooklyn Tech HS