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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sidwell had 11 last year out of a class of ~120, around 9%.  I think that's a decent number; it's just that TJ is insanely high. The differences in cutoff scores wouldn't come close to making up the gap.  [/quote]
This whole discussion is off-topic, but I think the real reason for the dramatic difference between TJ and the various private schools is explained by PP's earlier point about how and when the TJ students are picked.  Most of the private schools are admitting 80% (more?) of their students long before 9th grade.  A third or more of the students are admitted when they're in K or younger; most of the rest are admitted by middle school.  By contrast, TJ gets all its students as they're coming into 9th grade, and the primary basis for picking students is how they perform on a standardized test that looks a lot like the PSAT.  So it sort of stands to reason that the TJ students as a whole are going to blow the doors off the PSAT, doesn't it?

Not taking anything away from TJ.  I'm just trying to explain how the different selection processes go a long way to explaining the different results.  [/quote]

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