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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]2,762 kids applied and they have space for 500 or so kids. Lots of kids with great grades, who are in geometry or algebra 2, and who think they did well on the math problem are not going to be accepted. [b]And if they had a quant test, many of those kids would have the same score[/b], it wouldn’t change much.

The vast majority of the kids not selected have a good case for being selected. So do the kids who were accepted. [/quote]
It's easy to say that when you don't have a test and you can't check the data.
This is not an excuse for a lottery or rejecting kids with better grades or better performance in the math part. If there is a quant test and taking SOLs into account, the decisions would carry weight.  Right now, we have people in this thread saying that the SPS - something that has very little to do with STEM ability - mattered more.[/quote]

You don’t think that the kids accepted Pass Advanced on the SOLs? Take a look at the A1H SOL scores for 7th grade, the Pass Advanced rate is close to 90%. All of these kids have high grades in honors and AAP classes.

No one knows what mattered more because we don’t know how anything is graded. [b]Parents whose kids were not accepted are speculating[/b] because they are disappointed. Their kids grades and scores look the same as the kids accepted. It is unclear how kids are selected. That said, I would bet that the MAP and SOL scores of the kids accepted and the kids not accepted are close to the same as well.

The one change I would make is to change the Algebra 1 requirement to Geometry. [/quote]
They’re speculating because the process isn’t transparent. It’s fine that you’d bet the MAP and SOL scores of accepted and non-accepted students are similar—but without actual data, that’s just an assumption. I’d argue the opposite: without transparency, there’s just as much reason to believe the scores aren’t as close as you suggest.
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Have you looked at the SOL scores for A1H in 7th grade? Easy enough to go and look. The Pass Advanced rate is stupidly high.

You can argue all you want that the scores are different, go for it, you don’t know any more than I do. If it makes you feel better that your kid must be better than the kids who were accepted and probably had higher scores and would have crushed a quant test, go for it.

We prepared our kid with a reminder that he did the best that he could, he practiced the prompt writing and has done well in all his classes. With all of that, we expected 2,000 or more kids applied with similar stats. It is, essentially a lottery. Hopefully he was accepted but he would do well in his base school if he wasn’t. And the fact that he wasn’t accepted did not reflect on his school work or his ability. The kids applying are similar enough that differentiation is hard. And this isn’t going to be the first time this happens, college apps in 4 years are going to be similar, worse given that many of the colleges he is likely to apply to are even more selective. [/quote]

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