1.   Although some cities base admission to exam schools solely on test scores, it is considered highly unlikely that Boston will move to such a system.

2.   Academically competitive exam schools have had no more luck in adopting explicit racial and ethnic admissions goals.

3.   But even the allegedly elite exam schools disgraced themselves.

4.   Currently, fifty percent of applicants to the three exam schools are accepted solely on their entrance test score and grade point average.

5.   Each school would get four seats at each of the three exam schools and more based on performance, student-body size and personal interviews.

6.   If the School Department were to set income and neighborhood-based quotas for the exam schools, they could do so using various indicators.

7.   In the hope of avoiding a class action suit, School Committee members said they will immediately begin discussions about whether to accept those students to the exam schools.

8.   Questions about racial quotas at the exam schools, revisions to the school assignment plan, and violence in school are as much one as the other.

9.   School officials are also considering accepting some or all exam school students by lottery or creating new racial guidelines for the exam schools, school sources said.

10.   She now attends another exam school, Latin Academy.