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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My understanding is that the SPS is written as part of the timed, monitored administration along with the problem-solving essay.  While the specifics of the problem-solving essay can't be known in advance, the specifics of the SPS obviously can.  It would make sense to plan in advance what one plans to include in the SPS.  What I can't seem to find, though, is whether an outline is permitted to be brought to the testing site or whether it must be done entirely from memory.  Any insight into the process would be appreciated.

Thanks![/quote]

The SPS is graded using a propriety method, the Random Acceptance Criteria Evaluation (RACE), the specifics of which cannot be shared with the public.[/quote]

Troll[/quote]

It’s not trolling if it’s true. The admissions process uses a ‘proprietary process’ for grading the SIS and essay they will not share with the public.[/quote]

The fact that they don't share the process..... which by the way, is the case for [i]literally every major academic institution in America[/i].... doesn't mean that you aren't a bitter troll who is making up garbage.[/quote]

The lawsuit will give insight into that process.  FCPS says its race-blind.  We will know for certain in a few months.  [/quote]

I'm gonna go out on a limb and bet that you won't.

If there were a means to compel public institutions to reveal their proprietary admissions processes, you'd see them publicly posted with regard to literally hundreds of universities.

The lawsuit is going to evaluate the question of whether or not FCPS can use geographic representation quotas in their admissions processes. It's well established that they can, but the question will basically be "was Brabrand doing this entirely because of too many Asians".

The motion for injunctive relief was denied and the process for the Class of 2026 is going to go on as scheduled without interruption. Brabrand is resigning after this year and the next superintendent will have a clean slate from which to operate this legal process.

The Coalition for the Status Quo might very well win the case and get a judge to tell them that they're right - in which case, congratulations - but there will be no impact on the admissions process in future years until a new School Board is elected in November of 2023. The present School Board will just find another way to do the same thing if they're required to do so.[/quote]

The public will not know the proprietary process, but the lawyers and Judge will know.  That's how law suits work.  For example, the lawyers in the Yale case know exactly how race was used and the Judge described it vaguely without revealing the proprietary process in detail to protect it from the public.  The one thing we will know is if it is race-blind or not (as in the applicants are truly assigned a number and there is no way of knowing the gender, race, or school the applicant came from when grading the SES).[/quote]

What you're talking about is a holistic, largely subjective evaluation process. What that means is that the readers - of which there are several for each applicant/pool of applicants - take the entire application portfolio and read it from cover to cover, analyze it through their own lenses, and then make a recommendation or a rating for each applicant. Without doubt, each reader evaluates on a different holistic and subjective scale. [i]That's how admissions processes and job applications and everything IN THE REAL WORLD works.[/i] And that's all that a judge is going to learn from this process. It's not as though there is some secret formula that the readers are using to spit out some coefficient that puts applicants on a continuum.[/quote]

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