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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The way admissions are being handled this year will not ensure a class of 150 high achieving, on grade level students. [/quote]

My kid didn't get a spot either, but please don't rain on a bunch of hard working middle school kids who got an opportunity. [/quote]

+100

Comments like PP are just gross.  You can be upset your kid didn’t get an interview and think the process is unfair.  Fine.  Claiming that the kids who did get an interview are not high achieving makes you an a**hole.[/quote]

Notably, PP didn't say this.  PP didn't say none of the kids who got interviews are high-achieving.  Just that the process does not ensure a class of 150 high achieving, on grade level students.  It doesn't.  It is likely that many of the kids being interviewed (and who will eventually take places at the school) are in fact high-achieving, but the process does nothing to exclude kids who are below grade level, and it doesn't necessarily result in the 300 highest achieving students in the applicant pool being interviewed.[/quote]

And I would argue the admissions test did not ensure the 300 highest achieving students were interviewed.  Or that the class was 150 high achieving students.  There were years when the test cutoff for an interview was 50% on the math test.  [/quote]

Still, you’d probably rather have someone on the right side of that 50% in the class than on the wrong side.

All in all, I think testing is the best way to do admissions to a selective school. Grades and GPA mean totally different things at different schools. The finterviews were clearly silly. The letters of rec process they came up with is bizarre. These could all be components of admission, but they shouldn’t have more weight than an admissions test. [/quote]

True.[i]

Jeremiah Quinlan, the dean of undergraduate admissions at Yale, said in a written statement released by the university that Yale had determined that test scores, while imperfect, were predictive of academic success in college.

“Simply put,” he said, “students with higher scores have been more likely to have higher Yale G.P.A.s, and test scores are the single greatest predictor of a student’s performance in Yale courses in every model we have constructed.”[/i][/quote]

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