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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We were told there are still qualifying scores students have to hit on the essays to be considered for the 1.5% and if not enough hit that qualifying score on the essay part (even had GPA and were allowed to sit for essays), then those “seats” become unallocated and go to other students.

Some test companies do say this- example here at 10:20 in video link

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pKUDUn9ea-0

BUT, FCPS site does not use same wording- they say “students with the strongest evaluated applications from that school will be offered admission.”

(https://www.fcps.edu/about-fcps/registration/thomas-jefferson-high-school-science-and-technology-tjhsst-admissions)

Seat Allocation Process

Each public school within Fairfax County and each cooperating school division will be presumptively allocated a number of seats equal to 1.5% of that school’s 8th grade student population (“Allocated Seats”). The remainder of seats will not be allocated to any specific public school (“Unallocated Seats”). [b]In the event a school has fewer eligible applicants than its number of Allocated Seats, the difference will be treated as Unallocated Seats[/b]

Allocated Seats - Applicants attending public school will be first evaluated against other applicants from the same school, and students with the strongest evaluated applications from that school will be offered admission.

Unallocated Seats - All remaining public school applicants and applicants who do not attend public school in Fairfax County or in a cooperating division will be considered for the Unallocated Seats, which will be offered to the highest evaluated applicants in that group.[/quote]

This is what we heard too - that if a school doesn’t have enough kids that score well enough to get in, the 1.5% is out the window.  It’s the bolder part - there is a cutoff score on their “algorithm” (which is based on the test and whatever other factors they throw in) to be “eligible”.

So they look at each school and take the highest 1.5% of kids above the cutoff score.
Then they order the rest of the kids above the cutoff from highest to lowest (without consideration for school) and start at the top  until they fill the class.
The rest of the kids above the cutoff are in the waitpool and they just work their way down.
If the kid is below the cutoff, they are rejected immediately.[/quote]

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