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Anonymous
HSPT is a major factor for this. |
Anonymous
I'd guess it depends how many applications and spots they have. They'd look more closely if they need a reason to weed kids out or a reason to let kids in. You could always send in something addressing it, if you think there's a reason for the low score. But overall, the score is the score and you need to let the chips fall. I don't think many scores get examined by section breakdown. |
Anonymous
How do you know? |
Anonymous
that's too bad as my kid scored very high on one and not that high on the other section. |
Anonymous
95th-ish percentile. I know several kids who scored around 90th who weren't accepted. It may vary year to year though. |
Anonymous
| ^ I think anyway based off off kids I know who have and have not been accepted. |
Anonymous
Boys or girls? Racial demographics? Catholic or not? Public or private? Any visibility on grades? |
Anonymous
Any chance the people you know lied about the test scores to avoid judgment/embarrassment? |
Anonymous
My experience with our well-regarded parochial grammar school is they don't tell you where your student falls within the class. We have a probably an average to below-average academics student who we were told "he's fine" from K-8. Started suspecting maybe not so fine by middle school. Same refrain from school " he's fine." Had we known just how low he was ranking in the class - we would have done some intervention significantly sooner. His HSPT scores were abominable yet he was an A/B student. Looking backwards: it is no real surprise. But, had we known just how far behind some skills were relative to his peers - we would have pressed the gas a lot more, a lot sooner. So, precautionary note to parents.... if you suspect your kid needs some academic intervention / skills work but your schools says "he's fine".... believe your instincts - not some well-meaning but overworked and perhaps disinterested staff that don't really care about your kid once he is off their class list. |
Anonymous
My feeling on it is that its strictly a grade and test score admit. I of course don't really know but I don't think they care if you for example have lower test scores because you were at a title 1 public school that offered a less rigorous curriculum. The couple of kids I know (including my own) were from public with all As and between 80 & 90th percentile scores. I wasn't expecting the bar to be quite as high as it seems to be. Someone whose child was admitted probably has more insight. |
Anonymous
What about the standardized tests along the way? Did they indicate anything? Our k-8 puts little emphasis on them but we still get the scores and they always helped me gauge how my kids are doing. The percentiles pretty much matched HSPT percentiles |
Anonymous
DP but the kids from our Arlington diocese k-8 who get Scholars seem yo have 95th percentile and up. I’d be very surprised if they account for gender or other demographics. |
Anonymous
Admissions at the schools we applied to were clear that they balance for gender and race. More directly: they said they receive far more applications from white boys (probably since a lot of girls apply to all girls schools) from public schools. They were clearly trying to manage expectations. |
Anonymous
Admissions does but I was talking about the Scholars program at SJC. I agree with you that admissions does (and should!) account for gender and other demographics. But I don’t have the same impression for the honors programs or even the learning support program. |
Anonymous
DS attends Catholic school in DMV. Tested in 40s in spring of 7th. We hired a tutor for the summer and fall. Got an 85 (with a verbal score of 95) Tutoring absolutely helped! |