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The district hired auditors to avoid the incorrect admissions decisions it had in 2019 and 2020: Ernst & Young last year, and the local consultant firm Borderland Partners this year. But it was parents, not the auditor, that caught the mistakes.
The district employed Ernst & Young last year for the first year of a complex new admission process, and no known errors came to light under the global accounting firm’s watch.
In a letter sent to rising seventh-grade families this week, BPS said it discovered there was a miscalculation in the grade point averages to determine eligibility for the prospective students.
New eligibility notices will go out this week after dozens who met criteria to apply for an exam school slot were told they weren't eligible and others were wrongly told they were.