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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]2300...we're in the same boat. My child is currently in an independent private that is fairly rigorous; has gotten mostly A's, but some B's the last 2 years; took the SSAT, ISEE and HSPT and did extremely well on the SSAT/HSPT and pretty good on the ISEE; was one of the first finished with the SWW test and said it was a breeze....then today i get an email stating we're out of the running -_- I'm absolutely baffled....[/quote]

Baffled? It is one of the best high schools in the city and it is free. Hundreds of exceptionally smart kids from all over the city sit for that test. Many will get a perfect score.[/quote]

Yeah, there are alot of very smart capable kids in this city taking this test.  My son and alot of his friends who took the test could easily fit your child's profile.  A test score cut off is pretty arbitrary but they have to have some way of narrowing down the applications.[/quote]

A more fair way to winnow the pool would be to take the 250-300 students who scored the highest and then use their common lottery number to determine who gets in.

Everyone in that pool would have scored well enough on the SWW exam to succeed at the school, but the subjectivity of picking students based on a subjective interview would be eliminated. It would also be far less time consuming for students and families.[/quote]

Why is that "more fair"? If, as you say, everyone on the pool can succeed at the school, why not then create a class of successful kid that is also balanced and brings in multiple points fo view to class discussions?[/quote]

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