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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]CAPE is not inconsequential.  It is the only widely standradized test that parents in DC have to see if their kid is working below, on, or above grade level.   It also shows where your kid stands against all other kids in the city.

Now let me preface this by saying kids in DC are doing very poorly academically so the bar is not high with comparisons.  It would be much better if DC used a standardized test that many other states used so you can get at least a better sense of where your kid stands nationwide.  That would be a big eye opener to say the least, and not in a positive way either.[/quote]

It was a big eye opener for me when my kid reached high school and started taking SAT-suite tests. But not in the way you mean. My kid’s DC percentiles on the 8th grade PARCC (95th) were actually lower than their nationwide percentiles on the PSAT8/9 (99th).

The fact is that an average tells you nothing about the distribution. DC has a lot of struggling students, but it’s also very strong at the top. [/quote]

Yes, I agree that DC has a lot of kids who are very strong at the top, which is not too surprising for a city that has so many high achievers [b]and Ivy grads coming to work here[/b]. the high is very high and the low is deeply, depressingly low. [/quote]

Did you really say that out loud???!!! You are suggesting that kids of people who graduated from Ivy's have an inherent advantage? Icky.[/quote]

Kids of people who went to Ivys being likely to do better than average in standardized tests is… a secret? The quiet part? Have you never heard of genetics? Or of nurture? Like kid of good academic performer better than average at academic performance seems…
Obvious rather than scandalous?[/quote]

A lot of people think Ivies don’t select on intelligence at all, and if you only looked at who went to ivies from DC, and that was the extent of your sample…intelligence wouldn’t be that strong a predictor of who got in. [/quote]

Dumbest comment in DCUM today.

Congrats![/quote]
Intelligence test scores are a threshold for ivies, or they were. 
Ivies select for dc students on race first, legacy second, athletics third, though athletics is hopelessly confounded with the first two. Hope that helps![/quote]

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