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[quote=pbraverman][quote=Anonymous]Do you think the weight of the SSAT/ISEE is different between 6th grade and 9th grade admissions?[/quote]

That's pretty deep into the nitty-gritty! I don't think I could give a definitive answer.

Here are some very broad strokes: It depends on the school (some cultures seem to weigh test scores more heavily than others), but perhaps even more it could depend on the committee makeups. At many schools, the only people who would sit on both middle and upper school committees would be the head of school (likely but not certain) and the admission director. The rest of a committee's five or eight or ten members might comprise an assistant admission director or division admission director, the division head, a counselor, a learning specialist, and maybe one to four teachers (who probably change from year to year). So you have all of those individual views coming together trying to make sense of a lot of applications and notes from their colleagues. It's an incredibly inexact science practiced by very committed people doing their best.

That may not be very helpful, but it's what I know. If others have informed perspectives, I'd be eager to learn from them too.

Peter

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