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[quote=Anonymous]Oops, I'm a little stupid, so it is hard for me to interpret your question. When you mean DC, do you mean Washington D.C schools or Washington D.C students or some other D.C acronyms? Also, are you asking about what to do in your application that isn't necessarily preparation for their standardized tests? If the second question is a yes, these are things I would do: --> You should have an interest in STEM if you are applying to these schools, and the best way to bring it out is through your essays and extracurriculars. TJ & AOS Essays are timed, but AOS has a list of 6 untimed questions that detail your interest in STEM, and TJ has a list of 3 timed "SIS" questions that serve the same purpose. I was a little ..[i]extra[/i].. as a sixth grader so I copied the 6 questions from the AOS website into a word document that I kept when they were removed. Then, for the next three years until they were due, I wrote, perfected, edited, and rewrote my answers in the best way possible. Good answers include [b]why[/b] you're passionate about STEM and what you have done that shows the director (who handles admissions) this. It's harder to do this for TJ, because SIS are timed, and the questions don't entail your involvement about extracurricular activities. Though, they do use "bad answers", though well-written, to such SIS questions to put those bad applications in the trash. I knew a kid with a near perfect TJ test score (like 97/100) but when asked "Do you think high schools should have a computer science class in their STEM program?" he basically said "hell no". He was rejected, and I have this eery feeling that that was probably some, if not most, of the reason why. [/quote]
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