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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Got a denial from TJ today - Can anyone pls. provide any thoughts on what could have gone wrong to get a straight denial?

TJ Test -  Reading/Quant/Science :  100/99/98
7th Grade GPA in core subjects: 4.00 (A)
Summer Geometry: A
8th Grade Algebra II (1st and 2nd Qtr ) : A and A-

Did well on SIS/Essays (unknown factor) 
Excellent Teacher recommendations[/quote]

It's very hard to believe this denial based on the grades. Something not quite right. [/quote]

i interview kids for an Ivy League University in Cambridge, MA. These interviews are "optional" and wer are told do not "count" toward admission. But i tell you one thing: every time I had to report an  answer that says, "I don't want to go there, my parents want me to..." the kid doesn't get in. stellar numbers and all. [/quote]

I used to grade AP exams and there were a good number of answers that read "My parents made me take this test." I preferred those to the kids who wrote about their prom plans because they were short and sweet and I could move on from them easily enough. Prom discussions had to be fully read just in case the kid decided to answer part or all of the question asked at some point.

Parents never see the answers from the AP exam or similar exams so you have no idea what your kid has said on it. If you are someone who is making your kid go to prep or tutoring and they don't seem particularly enthusiastic, it is possible that your kid is the one who writes in an essay that they know you won't see that they don't want to go to TJ or to take this test or whatever it is. You child is never going to tell you that is what happened. [/quote]

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