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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is interesting - last year the cutoff was 3.88 (approx) to get an invterview - and they interviewed 500 (so you needed a 3.88 to be in top 500 group).  This year, the cut off GPA was 3.7 - at which point they looked at letters of rec/scored those letters and added that score to GPA score.  I wonder how many kids were in the 3.7 and above pool.  This probably expanded eligible numbers by a lot.  1000?  750?  [/quote]

I have wondered about this too.  I wonder if they used the 3.7 GPA because GPAs 3.7 and above received the same 'score' so then the way to distinguish was by looking at teacher recs. It's also possible that it's a lower GPA because the school reported receiving about 200 fewer apps than prior years (but still over 1700).

If because GPAs 3.7 and higher received the same score, then this version helps those kids who had a class that they didn't do so well in for whatever reason - harsh teacher, multiple substitutes, etc.

Unfortunately, this version does not help my kid who would have met the 3.88 cutoff but did not meet the teacher rec cutoff. I've been thinking about why I've been struggling with this. I think it comes down to two reasons 1) teachers 'rate' kids in different ways - some more generous than others, some may be more accustomed to filling out this form (since they'd been using it for Banneker in past years) and some are new to filling it out (I do also worry, granted in a paranoid way, that for schools that have a high school (like BASIS, DCI, Latin) that they want those kids to continue so don't rate as high). And this just feels out of the kid's control. 2) I don't see how this approach helps them to serve kids from all eight wards - which has been a stated goal (at least verbally) and a goal that I do support.

I wonder about how to counter that sense of being out of the kid's control because it's not reasonable to expect them to read thousands of essays. I do think they could read hundreds of essays (which is what they are planning to do this go-round) so then maybe they could have an onsite (so you don't have kids getting excessive external help) essay day or two and just cut out the interview part of the process so then they could read the essays of all the kids who receive the top score for GPA. This way you'd have two factors within the kids control before they get 'cut.'[/quote]

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