The Mission - Veterans Memorial Early College High School (MVMECHS) follows the school within a school model. For admissions, students are chosen through a weighted lottery that favors students who are at risk or who are part of the targeted subpopulations for the ECHS model. Specifically, students who complete all required paperwork to be part of the MVMECHS 9th grade cohort are then given a Mission - Veterans Memorial Early High School Commitment Form where all relevant PEIMS data is pre-slugged based on the district’s data base. Once the Commitment Form is returned to the VMHS campus, all students who returned the form will go into the lottery one time. A student will go into the lottery an additional time for each of the following identified PEIMS measures: at-risk, Hispanic, economically disadvantaged. Therefore, a student’s name can go into the lottery anywhere from one to four times depending on the PEIMS indicators.