Did the CAP class go back down to 75 this year and was the test structured differently?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This sounds like a pretty serious testing irregularity. It seems like all students should have been allowed to re-test.

It had been going on for years, instead of retesting, they lowered the bar for admission the year it was discovered. Seems like a reasonable compromise. At some point the score is low enough that it's clear the time irregularity wasn't a factor. Anyway, this didn't impact the essay portion, which I'd think would be an equally important test for CAP.

My child was one of the ones who was waitlisted. Her verbal and essay scores were higher than the median admitted scores for RMIB, so I'm pretty confident that they didn't "lower the bar for admission." The investigation did not show that any of the students who had been accepted had somehow cheated the system, but it did lead the central office to question the opaque and seemingly arbitrary process that had led to the selection of some students over others. It's my understanding that now the criteria for admission are more transparent and test scores are shared with the students.

[Anonymous]

It seems like no one knows whether they admitted 75 or 100 kids into CAP this year. Can anyone answer that question?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This sounds like a pretty serious testing irregularity. It seems like all students should have been allowed to re-test.

It had been going on for years, instead of retesting, they lowered the bar for admission the year it was discovered. Seems like a reasonable compromise. At some point the score is low enough that it's clear the time irregularity wasn't a factor. Anyway, this didn't impact the essay portion, which I'd think would be an equally important test for CAP.

My child was one of the ones who was waitlisted. Her verbal and essay scores were higher than the median admitted scores for RMIB, so I'm pretty confident that they didn't "lower the bar for admission." The investigation did not show that any of the students who had been accepted had somehow cheated the system, but it did lead the central office to question the opaque and seemingly arbitrary process that had led to the selection of some students over others. It's my understanding that now the criteria for admission are more transparent and test scores are shared with the students.

Not disparaging anyone, just trying to make the point that by admitting 100, the 75 most deserving applicants should be admitted without the need for retesting.

There's the possibility your DC was on the waitlist because someone already admitted had an extremely high verbal score. The RMIB students couldn't blow off the math test and get admitted, so they have those median scores and good math scores. Regardless, with those scores, in any other year, your DC probably would have been pulled from the waitlist just the same.