HSPT Scores

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Anonymous wrote:Scores arrived. 85% here. Anyone know what that means to schools or how important it is for a student with all As? Not really looking for aid as much as wanting to know about how it affects admittance and/or classes.

To which schools? And from private or public middle school? Because we know everyone in public has all As. For Gonzaga and Visi and from public, I'd be very worried. From catholic k-8 I'd be a little worried. For O'Connell or Ireton you're fine regardless of your middle school.

You seem like a nice person.

Am I wrong? I have no personal experience in public, but I thought that was true. But if this is an exaggeration, please tell me! I live in APS boundaries, so maybe I'm getting an incorrect impression from neighbors and/or maybe this isn't true everywhere?

Not trying to be insensitive, but that has also been our experience. Maybe ours is a skewed view, but almost everyone we know from public who would be applying to private schools have straight A's and are in gifted or advanced classes. This is for Upper School applications. If others have a different experience, please share. Not trying to be rude. Just sharing our experience.

And yet my two former APS kids (k-8) now high schoolers still have straight As in their private Independent. They don’t seem to be struggling in Honors/APS like many classmates (a Junior & Freshmen). But their HSPTs were in the upper 90s.

Don’t knock public school kids.

I have no idea where you got the idea I was knocking public school kids. I have a current public middle schooler applying to private.

The person saying they have no personal experience in public -

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Scores arrived. 85% here. Anyone know what that means to schools or how important it is for a student with all As? Not really looking for aid as much as wanting to know about how it affects admittance and/or classes.

To which schools? And from private or public middle school? Because we know everyone in public has all As. For Gonzaga and Visi and from public, I'd be very worried. From catholic k-8 I'd be a little worried. For O'Connell or Ireton you're fine regardless of your middle school.

You seem like a nice person.

Am I wrong? I have no personal experience in public, but I thought that was true. But if this is an exaggeration, please tell me! I live in APS boundaries, so maybe I'm getting an incorrect impression from neighbors and/or maybe this isn't true everywhere?

Not trying to be insensitive, but that has also been our experience. Maybe ours is a skewed view, but almost everyone we know from public who would be applying to private schools have straight A's and are in gifted or advanced classes. This is for Upper School applications. If others have a different experience, please share. Not trying to be rude. Just sharing our experience.

And yet my two former APS kids (k-8) now high schoolers still have straight As in their private Independent. They don’t seem to be struggling in Honors/APS like many classmates (a Junior & Freshmen). But their HSPTs were in the upper 90s.

Don’t knock public school kids.

That’s why I am a fan of tests required (college and high school). It gives you an additional marker, along with recs. Schools and their rigor/grading can be vastly different. Your kids’ scores backed their grades/performance.

And I know kids that test lower can still succeed and do well. But the privates have a relation with other privates and our familiar with them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Scores arrived. 85% here. Anyone know what that means to schools or how important it is for a student with all As? Not really looking for aid as much as wanting to know about how it affects admittance and/or classes.

To which schools? And from private or public middle school? Because we know everyone in public has all As. For Gonzaga and Visi and from public, I'd be very worried. From catholic k-8 I'd be a little worried. For O'Connell or Ireton you're fine regardless of your middle school.

You seem like a nice person.

Am I wrong? I have no personal experience in public, but I thought that was true. But if this is an exaggeration, please tell me! I live in APS boundaries, so maybe I'm getting an incorrect impression from neighbors and/or maybe this isn't true everywhere?

Not trying to be insensitive, but that has also been our experience. Maybe ours is a skewed view, but almost everyone we know from public who would be applying to private schools have straight A's and are in gifted or advanced classes. This is for Upper School applications. If others have a different experience, please share. Not trying to be rude. Just sharing our experience.

And yet my two former APS kids (k-8) now high schoolers still have straight As in their private Independent. They don’t seem to be struggling in Honors/APS like many classmates (a Junior & Freshmen). But their HSPTs were in the upper 90s.

Don’t knock public school kids.

I have no idea where you got the idea I was knocking public school kids. I have a current public middle schooler applying to private.

Two different PPs. One with a public school MSer saying the kids they encounter applying to private from public have all As in advanced classes and gifted programs. The other, earlier PP with no experience of public saying well, we all know everyone gets As in public >wink<>wink<

[Anonymous]

What do u need on HSPT to test into honors at Visi? And what do u need to just simply get in?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Scores arrived. 85% here. Anyone know what that means to schools or how important it is for a student with all As? Not really looking for aid as much as wanting to know about how it affects admittance and/or classes.

To which schools? And from private or public middle school? Because we know everyone in public has all As. For Gonzaga and Visi and from public, I'd be very worried. From catholic k-8 I'd be a little worried. For O'Connell or Ireton you're fine regardless of your middle school.

You seem like a nice person.

Am I wrong? I have no personal experience in public, but I thought that was true. But if this is an exaggeration, please tell me! I live in APS boundaries, so maybe I'm getting an incorrect impression from neighbors and/or maybe this isn't true everywhere?

It is not true, I know plenty of kids who don’t have all A’s. Families looking at privates probably skew towards higher achieving kids so all A’s may be valid in your bubble but it’s not reflective of all APS students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What do u need on HSPT to test into honors at Visi? And what do u need to just simply get in?

You should make this a separate post. I know the school heavily caters to legacy and Catholic K-8 school grads regardless of HSPT scores so if you are in that category I would not be concerned.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What do u need on HSPT to test into honors at Visi? And what do u need to just simply get in?

You should make this a separate post. I know the school heavily caters to legacy and Catholic K-8 school grads regardless of HSPT scores so if you are in that category I would not be concerned.

It is a separate post. Way to insult Visitation and not answer the question.

[Anonymous]

Got ours from O'Connell today.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Scores arrived. 85% here. Anyone know what that means to schools or how important it is for a student with all As? Not really looking for aid as much as wanting to know about how it affects admittance and/or classes.

To which schools? And from private or public middle school? Because we know everyone in public has all As. For Gonzaga and Visi and from public, I'd be very worried. From catholic k-8 I'd be a little worried. For O'Connell or Ireton you're fine regardless of your middle school.

You seem like a nice person.

Am I wrong? I have no personal experience in public, but I thought that was true. But if this is an exaggeration, please tell me! I live in APS boundaries, so maybe I'm getting an incorrect impression from neighbors and/or maybe this isn't true everywhere?

Not trying to be insensitive, but that has also been our experience. Maybe ours is a skewed view, but almost everyone we know from public who would be applying to private schools have straight A's and are in gifted or advanced classes. This is for Upper School applications. If others have a different experience, please share. Not trying to be rude. Just sharing our experience.

And yet my two former APS kids (k-8) now high schoolers still have straight As in their private Independent. They don’t seem to be struggling in Honors/APS like many classmates (a Junior & Freshmen). But their HSPTs were in the upper 90s.

Don’t knock public school kids.

+1. My DC who attended APS for K-8 has had the same experience in HS. He had straight As in middle and is taking all honors classes at a private HS and earning close to all As. He scored in the mid 90s on his HSPTs. He’s a bright kid and his private HS has been a great fit for him for many reasons. But APS also deserves credit for preparing him well.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What do u need on HSPT to test into honors at Visi? And what do u need to just simply get in?

You should make this a separate post. I know the school heavily caters to legacy and Catholic K-8 school grads regardless of HSPT scores so if you are in that category I would not be concerned.

It is a separate post. Way to insult Visitation and not answer the question.

Ma'am, it is most certainly not a separate post. You have replied to a year old thread.

[Anonymous]

What minimum HSPT score is required for BJOC? Any thoughts?

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Anonymous wrote:What minimum HSPT score is required for BJOC? Any thoughts?

What is BJOC?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What do u need on HSPT to test into honors at Visi? And what do u need to just simply get in?

You should make this a separate post. I know the school heavily caters to legacy and Catholic K-8 school grads regardless of HSPT scores so if you are in that category I would not be concerned.

It is a separate post. Way to insult Visitation and not answer the question.

DP. You bumped a year-old thread with several pages already. As you can see, just as many people are responding to posts from a year ago earlier in the thread without looking at the date as are responding to your post. You might have better luck starting a new thread.

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what is minimum score for a school like St Johns High School? How about for their Benilde? any experience?

[Anonymous]

So folks want minimum scores so far for Visi, SJC, and whatever BJOC is. Any others? How about Stone Ridge? Ireton or O’Connell? We could start a thread for HSPT scores for every Catholic in the DMV.