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Anonymous
Our kid got into SJC with a lower score than that. |
Anonymous
| HSPT is only 1 thing admissions looks at for SJC. My DC got in with 45 percentile. But had an excellent essay and great teacher recs. She wrote about her community involvement and how her faith has developed throughout her time in school. |
Anonymous
where did they get in? |
Anonymous
I would agree with this. Based on our experience and what we've heard from other families who got into SJC is that the school puts far more emphasis on the essays and recs than HSPT scores. This is not to say you shouldn't prep for the test, but if you only have the bandwidth to focus hard on one aspect of the application, make it the essay and recs. |
Anonymous
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I’m actually in California, but I fill time looking at your very active board. My DS prepped for the HSPT at his current school, but he had to take the ISEE for one of the 4 schools that he is applying to.
His practice tests for the HSPT were consistently netting out around the 70th percentile, and we didn’t take an ISEE practice test until a few weeks before his real test, but we were surprised at how much worse the scores were. Despite cramming for the real thing, he ended up with only an average of a 5…and I won’t even talk about the quant reasoning score 
So, my question is whether it is normal to do much better on the HSPT than the ISEE. We won’t receive the official HSPT scores until decision day, so I’m on pins and needles wondering what to expect. |
Anonymous
| My son prepped for the HSPT and the SSAT and we looked at the ISEE as an alternative to the HSPT. The ISEE is a much more difficult exam than the HSPT and, for the math sections, harder than the SSAT. The tutor we worked with told us to expect about to score at about a 10% higher percentage on the HSPT over the SSAT. So, yes, I would expect to do better on the HSPT. |
Anonymous
Same, my kid got in with a much lower score than that. I’m so glad to see the my kid in isn’t the only one. And glad that SJC gives chances to even the low HSPT score kids. And out of all the schools we applied to, SJC was the only one that didn’t have student or parent interviews as part of the process. Oddly, that must’ve helped, because we got waitlisted almost everywhere else and those other schools had interviews. I wish I had the information I gleaned from this forum about what schools seem to care about, prior to doing the interviews that we did. |
Anonymous
| My son got him with 57. |
Anonymous
Tons and tons of kids (and parents). |
Anonymous
lol, thanks for the laughs. |
Anonymous
| HSPT Scores are out. |
Anonymous
| We have to wait for Jan til our results. We did intense prep, 2 hrs a week since Sept, just me and child. Maybe 6 practice tests. DC came out saying it was much easier than all the prep (many math concepts we studied not included) and more importantly, DC answered every single question! Fingers crossed for a scholarship, that was the impetus for gunning for a high score |
Anonymous
MAP is the worst testing system I can imagine. Doesn’t surprise me to learn there was no correlation. |
Anonymous
Same here, the scores for our school are out now. |
Anonymous
How were you notified, email? |