Here’s an excerpt from the article in Friday’s New York Times’ about the pre-K and middle school admissions mishaps. The story was written by Jennifer Medina and it includes a paragraph about our being left off the list entirely. She called me this evening to find out our status. “Still waiting,” I said.

Middle school admissions notifications have been delayed, leaving parents frustrated and unable to plan for next year, especially if their children do not get their first choice.

“Part of the challenge is that we took on about 28 individual district processes and created a standardized timeline,” said Elizabeth Sciabarra, the director of the Office of Student Enrollment, Planning and Operations, referring to how middle school admissions were changed. Her office, which handles high school admissions, added prekindergarten admissions and notification of middle school admissions this year. “I know that there are parents who are upset that they haven’t gotten a letter yet. Rest assured they will by the end of the week, and we have committed to parents we will work to get this done earlier next year.”

In years past, neighborhood districts set their own calendars for middle school admissions; this year, the city placed all middle schools on the same timeline, although admissions criteria and decisions remained the responsibility of individual schools.

In some districts, the uniform timetable means students are finding out where they will go several weeks later than they would have under the old system. And, in part because various admissions forms were delayed, notification letters were sent several days later than the city had planned.

The department has considered consolidating the entire middle school admissions process, as it did for high schools five years ago, but Ms. Sciabarra said no final decision had been made.

Although city officials said the problems were limited to the delay in notification, there were hints of other issues. Several students at P.S. 321 in Park Slope were assigned to middle schools that they did not apply to, school officials said. And one student was simply left off the list of children assigned to the school.

Louise Crawford said she was shocked to learn that her daughter’s name was somehow missing. “I would love to have just said to my daughter, ‘This is where you’re going,’ and let her have had a good moment,” she said. As of Thursday, she had still not received a letter

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