Family must be physically living in NYS 12 months before the first day of college (even if s/he is not yet enrolled in high school in NY).
We now start earlier in NYC, because there are now more holidays on the calendar and we must still get all of the mandated instructional days in. For 2019-2019.
NYC HS starts on September 5 and ends on June 26 (administrators/GCs/School secretaries work until June 28). It is a shake your head moment, because students start Wednesday after labor day, in school Wednesday-Friday, then school is closed the following Monday and Tuesday. Already talking about how some students are probably not coming to school until September 12.
If the student is in NY now, they can do the enrollment process now and just start school on the first day of class.
At the NYCDOE there are no “over the counter” admissions, where you go to the school and register. You must go to the office of enrollment (family welcome center), with parent child, transcripts, report card and all of the other information needed to enroll in school.
Student is assigned to a school if it is a zoned or unscreened program.
If there Op was looking at a screened school, they would be given a referral speak with the Principal/Ap other staff working over the summer who would review transcripts and make the decision as to whether or not to admit the student.
One of the challenges is that student will have to meet all of the NYS graduation requirements (regent exams, credit accumulation, etc)