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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What are you even talking about? My child has not shown me the list but mentioned a bunch of friends who got in over dinner. I know these kids and DC has said for 2.5 years they are all the top students with 300+ MAP scores.[/quote]

The top mostly Asian 300+ students have got in. Agree. Seems though that the bar for Asian kids is 300+ while the bar for others is much lower. [/quote]

Maybe they wrote a better essay. Maybe their interests and hobbies are more aligned with the program. Map scores are only a small part of the criteria. 99th percentile below 300 is still top, add a compelling essay and hobbies that stands out and it makes a more interesting candidate [/quote]

There’s a poster here who has convincingly argued in the past that MAP isn’t designed to differentiate between degrees of 99th percentile and that there is no meaningful difference between 270 and 310 scores. Maybe that’s what the committee thought too.[/quote]

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