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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's how it works.  100-200 people, comprising AAP teachers, school counselors, AARTs, and more are split into small groups to review files.  The criterion for getting in is that over half of the people reviewing your child's file vote that the child should be admitted.  The files are viewed holistically, meaning that the same panel might reject someone with high scores and then accept someone with low scores if something else in the file convinced them that kid #2 belongs in AAP but kid #1 doesn't.  
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But no notes or comparisons that would be subject to ferpa or foia, because they really don't want anyone to see the sausage making [/quote]

It's no different than what goes on in magnet school admissions, or TJ, or private high schools, or colleges (state or private).  I'm not sure why people think there's a strict formula to use.  It is no different than a job interview, or anything else in life where a bunch of people apply, but some make it and others don't.  Every year a ton of parents are up in arms about "why" their kid was rejected.  There is NO single answer.  The reviewers who touched your kid's file didn't believe he/she belonged in AAP in comparison to the other files they reviewed.  That is the essence of the "holistic" review.  Trying to find the silver bullet on AAP admissions is just futile.  Collectively, we waste a lot of time on this on a yearly basis.  [/quote]

The problem with holistic admissions is that it can easily be abused.  The history of so-called holistic admissions in the U.S. is rather sordid and actually starts with anti-semitism.  Basically, lots of schools used to have test-based admissions and Jews were out performing.  To address this, holistic admissions was introduced.  Holistic admissions, while it sounds nice in theory, often ends up perpetuating very human biases and is a way of eliminating transparency and oversight.[/quote]

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