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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Applying next year as an unconnected family from a TT private school. Does it help if your child got to round 2 for Hunter? [/quote]

It doesn’t get you in if that’s what you’re wondering. And I wouldn’t bring it up because it’s irrelevant if Hunter is this year and you’re applying to private next year. [/quote]

Curious why you said this? To get to Hunter round 2, need 99th% on an IQ test. Seems like could be helpful information to a school that values academic achievement. But can see how it can be viewed as bad taste/irrelevant. [/quote]

1) TTs trust their own admissions process, which is likely why they are all varied not only in content but format.

2) 99th% on an IQ test at 4 isn’t an academic achievement— it is potential.

3) IQ is not reliably tested at age 4.

I’ve been there and I understand the desire to set your child apart in this wildly stressful process. It wouldn’t be something I mentioned unless both processes were happening concurrently. And even then, it would be for my PSD to mention. A year later? I’d look like all the nuts parents sitting in an interview pontificating about my genius child. [/quote]

This is incredibly helpful! Thank you so much and agreed. It’s probably also better to speak to other accomplishments (like when child learns to read, etc.) that naturally speak to this and potential. So much to learn, not going through this until next year. Hoping for Hunter then it’s a non issue. Wish you the best of luck! [/quote]

Unfortunately learning to read is also a dime a dozen skill here unless you have a kid who self-taught really, really young. Hope it’s also Hunter for you so you can be done with this mess, but if it’s not, 4/5 year olds don’t usually have accomplishments. Focus on what makes your kid tick, the questions they raise, their engagement with the world and how that speaks to who they are (at 4/5 years old haha). Have anecdotes that don’t just tell them who your child is, they show them. Know the schools and how they align with your family and values.

And thank you. I’ve been through this process so now we’re in the pool of the connected, which is supposed to be a much easier gauntlet to run ;)[/quote]

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