2013 Admissions Results
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SAM2
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Below are links to a tool for counting 2013 admissions results. The counting tool is live now, so please enter only real data. If you want to wait to enter your child's results all at one time next week, that's probably most accurate. But if you want to enter results piecemeal as you receive them, that's fine too, but try not to double-count since that just makes things confusing. As is probably obvious, this counting process is pretty free-form. Since you are the ones entering the data, it's up to you to control the accuracy of your responses.
Here is a link to a simple survey tool, so people can log their admission results for 2013. http://goo.gl/9arbT Here is a direct link to a summary of the current results. http://goo.gl/R1h6L You will see that I listed only a limited number of schools, and dropped some from last time. This is due to a lack of many results for those schools. If there are schools you want me to add back next year, there is a spot at the end of the form to list them. At the end of the form, there is a spot to identify waitlist spots that might open. Please use it to let other waitlisted people know what might open up. Also, as is DCUM tradition, people of course should feel free to bypass the survey, and just post results to this thread free form. Good luck to everyone. May all your envelopes be fat. |
SAM2
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| BTW, in case anyone is interested, here is a link to last year's results. http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/217240.page |
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| Question for the survey -- the question re: test scores, unless I glossed over it, asks for percentile, but not percentile within group -- for example the ranking nationally versus the ranking within the test taking group. There's always a very wide gap there. Can you illuminate what data you're looking for? |
Anonymous
| Curious about the results already added to the survey. Are they all fake? |
Anonymous
| great work on the pie charts, SAM2, but as you only got 160 responses, do you think its wise to post this as a guide. 160 respinses has to be like less tahn 1/10th of those accepted responding to your survey. |
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My guess is that they were siblings or legacies. |
SAM2
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I'm unfamiliar with admissions test scores that show two different groups. My own children's scores showed only one full-scale percentile number (along with separate percentiles for subtests), but my experience is limited to their scores. Are you thinking about ERB tests? I believe those will show your child's place in different background groups. In the end, I suspect the more useful percentile would be the national ranking. |
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All fake as far as I'm concerned. |
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I don't see it as a guide. I'm not sure what people would want to take away from it. To me, it's just a mechanism to sum up the number of results for people who post on DCUM and choose to respond. I created it as something more efficient than reading through 20 pages of people posting things like "Girl, PK, 95%, GDS accepted, Green Acres WL." |
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Actually, for the SSAT, I think the more relevant score is the ranking among test takers, not the estimated national score. The former is more indicative of the actual competitive pool.
Here's how the SSAT describes it: SSAT Percentile Ranks for each category The SSAT ranks (1-99%) compare your scores to those of students of your gender and grade in the US and Canada who have taken the SSAT on a Standard test date in the last three years. For example, if your Verbal SSAT Percentile is 65%, you scored equal or better in the Verbal section than 65% of students (of your gender and grade) who took the SSAT on a Standard test date in the past three years. Estimated National Percentile Ranks (grades 5-9 only) The national ranks (1-99%) estimate your performance compared to a national student population, not only students who have taken the SSAT For SSAT takers, I'd be interested in knowing how big the delta is for these two scores. |
Anonymous
| No interest in Edmund Burke? |
Anonymous
Seems everyone on this site always reports 99th percentile, no matter what group or subtest... Difference in scores (percentiles) for SSAT national group compared to the SSAT taker's group is wide. 99th percentile national, 75th percentile ssat group only in my DS case on one subtest |
Anonymous
| Interesting ... my DS was 99th national, 96th overall in subset (ranging from 91-98 in subcategories). |
Anonymous
| a lot of people may be posting WPPSI results, not SSAT |
Anonymous
| Just post whichever percentile you think the schools will care more about. |