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Anonymous
| Another vote to add Burgundy Farms to the list! Thanks! |
Anonymous
St Albans and NCS have their own test. |
Anonymous
| Thanks. Do schools share results with applicants? |
Anonymous
What results? The test results? Yes, they send my DS's to me, along with some kind of percentile, although I don't know if it is amoung applicants or (more likely, based on the percentile that my DS got), a hypothetical percentile based on what they think would be the results if the test were given to a general population. |
Anonymous
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Hello. I am inquiring about how to find out how many Jewish families apply to the upper Cathedral Schools and what percent get in? Any idea of this besides asking admissions directly?
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Anonymous
| The St. Anselm's tests are 2 tests that are licensed by St. Anselm's and are nationally standardized. The % given is against that national pool of people who took the test when it was standardized. So if you are 90% you scored better than 90% of the kids who took the test. One test is basically a group IQ test and the other is Verbal and Math. I don't know much about the SSAT so I don't know how it stacks up against that, what the SSAT tests. |
Anonymous
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I would think including the school tests, along with the SSAT, might discourage folks from participating because the chance that your participation will be known becomes higher. How many applicants got precisely that set of scores.
For instance, I will not participate, we applied out in a non-expansion year and there are only a few applicants so if I provide my child's gender, we're one of a few, no thanks! Trust me, admissions folks read DCUM. |
Anonymous
| I think the SSAT tests whether or not your kid went to a private elementary school. |
Anonymous
Your choice whether to participate or not. But you're misunderstanding what level of detail is being made available. Take a look at the sample results link. Say for example that you have a son who is applying to 10th grade to Maret, Potomac, and Gonzaga, and he scored 80-89th percentile on whatever test he took, and he's a sibling and legacy. That's a pretty specific set of circumstances, so it may well make him identifiable. However, no one gets all those details linked together in the results page. All people will see is that (for example) there were 24 boy applicants total for every school, 3 applications to 10th grade for any school, 7/8/9 applications each to Maret/Potomac/Gonzaga, 12 kids who scored 80-89th percentile on some test (no designation which test) for some school, 7 siblings, and 5 legacies. This generalized data is certainly less interesting than the very specific data, but also makes it impossible to discern personal data. |
Anonymous
| 12:08 What do you mean by that? |
Anonymous
| I think 12:08 means that the only people on DCUM are crazy people and AD people trying to correct all the misinformation the crazy people post. |
Anonymous
Funny and apt. Good one! |
Anonymous
| Thanks, 15:11. Of course, these aggregate results are not as interesting as per grade results, because you can have 10 applicants for 2 spots in one grade and 75 for six spots in another grade at the same school. But thanks to SAM2 for doing this. |
Anonymous
| None of this speculation is going to amount to a hill of beans. What one school does cannot be compared to another and what one school in one admissions year does cannot be compared to the same school in another admission year. There are some things you cannot control and all this obsessing will go nowhere. Here's an idea: get off this site and go play with your kids, get some exercise, have sex with your husband or get some sleep. Any of the aforementioned would be a healthier use of one's time. |
Anonymous
You're on DCUM at 1am posting this advice? |