2011 Admissions Results -- Links to Google doc are in 1st post on page 1

Anonymous
To keep anonymity, how about providing percentile score to the nearest integer, so for example, report 99%ile, even if score is 99.4%ile or 99.9%ile. That should be harder for schools to track.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:To keep anonymity, how about providing percentile score to the nearest integer, so for example, report 99%ile, even if score is 99.4%ile or 99.9%ile. That should be harder for schools to track.

I definitely support that approach. Right now, I set up options to report percentile in large 10-point increments (e.g., 80th to 89th percentile), with only one smaller increment at the top for 99%. What you're proposing is making an even finer distinction that I currently plan to use. I welcome input from others about the best increment. The people who really should be providing input are those here who are actually waiting on early-March decisions. Those are the ones who hopefully will be responding, so they should say that level of specificity makes them comfortable.

Sam2
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Actually I meant broadly, as applied to the results. If I am misapplying the term, my excuses.

margin of error In survey research, an estimate of the difference between a result obtained from a sample (e.g., the sample mean) and the corresponding true population value (e.g., population mean).



Yes, you are misapplying the term in two ways.

Margin of error is a stat that indicates how closely the results of a randomized sample are likely to approximate results from the entire population. This means that margin of error
(1) doesn't include non-sampling errors and (2) can't be computed unless you have a randomized sample.
Anonymous
So no survey but a randomized one has a calculatable margin of error?
Anonymous
Right -- and when you can compute it, it only reflects errors associated with sampling (e.g. It doesn't take into account the possibility that someone will lie or miscode data).
Anonymous
Any last suggestions for ways to improve this counting tool? I plan to finalize it this weekend, and post a "live" version some time next week.
Beta version of survey: https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?form...NaSlMtdlRPd3hORmc6MA
Beta version of results: https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewanalytics...NaSlMtdlRPd3hORmc6MA

Possible adjustments:
Any schools to add? Any schools to eliminate?
Other student/family characteristics to be tracked? Any to eliminate?
Adjust instructions some questions, to remove any ambiguity?
Add a question about handwritten notes from Maret, since that seems to be a hot topic every year?
Others?

TIA.
Anonymous
Thanks, the links are not working.

Anonymous
Don't know about others, but I can't get in to either doc through the links.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Any last suggestions for ways to improve this counting tool? I plan to finalize it this weekend, and post a "live" version some time next week.
Beta version of survey: https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?form...NaSlMtdlRPd3hORmc6MA
Beta version of results: https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewanalytics...NaSlMtdlRPd3hORmc6MA

Possible adjustments:
Any schools to add? Any schools to eliminate?
Other student/family characteristics to be tracked? Any to eliminate?
Adjust instructions some questions, to remove any ambiguity?
Add a question about handwritten notes from Maret, since that seems to be a hot topic every year?
Others?

TIA.


Most of the Virginia schools are missing. I would add:

Alexandria Country Day School
Browne Academy
Burgundy Farm Country Day School
The Langley School
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Thanks, the links are not working.

Oops. I must've mis-copied. Try these:
Beta survey: https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?form...NaSlMtdlRPd3hORmc6MA
Beta results: https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewanalytics...NaSlMtdlRPd3hORmc6MA
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Most of the Virginia schools are missing. I would add:
Alexandria Country Day School
Browne Academy
Burgundy Farm Country Day School
The Langley School

Will add. Do you think there are appreciable numbers of people on DCUM applying to those schools? I'm not too familiar with them, so maybe I just don't notice people posting about them.
Anonymous
Great survey, SAM2!

I would add "First Choice Letter?"--since this seems to come up on a regular basis.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Most of the Virginia schools are missing. I would add:
Alexandria Country Day School
Browne Academy
Burgundy Farm Country Day School
The Langley School

Will add. Do you think there are appreciable numbers of people on DCUM applying to those schools? I'm not too familiar with them, so maybe I just don't notice people posting about them.


We applied to one of these schools...
Anonymous
I agree on first choice letters and the handwritten waitlist point.
TIA!

Anonymous
SAM, YOU ROCK! This is awesome!! Signed, Big Fan
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