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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Go and look at the data.  It’s incredibly difficult.  Before the admissions reforms, about 10% of the class came from private. Last year IIRC there were less than 10 kids admitted from private school.  [/quote]

This is because previously there used to be TJ tests and private schools used to prep them for it and now for the new admission they fall behind some public school children now because private schools try to teach stuff more broadly and not deep enough from what one parent told and moved her to public school. Honestly public schools are better because they get to learn from kids of various diversity and background. Regardless, going back to the poster question:

This is how the process works: Every school gets 1.5% initially. Some schools don't have enough qualified kids to meet that 1.5%. So the unused seats go to unallocated quota. So the unallocated quota is not small. It is almost half of 550 they admit (TJ increased seats from 450 to 550). In unallocated quota, all public and private schools kids are treated equally. So they sort all the kids based on their scores and the top few get admission offers from unallocated quota. When it goes to unallocated, there are top middle schools like Longfellow, Carson, Rocky Run with extremely qualified kids who get selected who have GPA 4+ and great extracurricular which they write about in the SPS response which private school kids don't have honestly. So private kids fall behind compared to the top feeder schools kids. This is why private admission is low.

Every kid is graded on GPA (300 points); SPS (300 points); STEM problem (300 points). Some kids from other background/schools get some free points (Experience Factors) but they are all sorted together in the unallocated bucket.

https://www.tjtestprep.com/admissions-overview[/quote]

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