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Students lined up outside Brooklyn Technical High School in Fort Greene Saturday for the Department of Education's annual high school fair.

The weekend-long event is designed to help kids choose a school, and learn more about how to apply.

"I'd really like to go to Tech. I know it's going to be hard to get into but my sister goes there," said Seventh Grader Richard Swanson.

Kids can apply to the zoned school for their neighborhood, or to one of the city's specialized high schools, and each application process is different.

Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott says the fair, which features representatives from more than 300 schools, gives students and their parents a chance to get some good information.

"We want our children, we want our parents to know what's going on, and this really provides a great opportunity for them to learn," Walcott said.

"High school is obviously one of the most critical stages for a kid's development and that gets them into the right college," said one parent. "It's definitely important and we want to make sure that if there's an open house and there's a school we hadn't heard of that seems to be a winner, we want to be able to figure it out and apply."

Chancellor Walcott says he expects 30,000 people to attend the fair before it wraps up Sunday afternoon.

Applications for city high schools are due in by early December.