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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MAP-R scores are low for RMIB, but could be offset by good essay.[/quote]

Isn't the essay super short? Doubt that it makes a difference.[/quote]

College admissions essays are under 650 words but they matter.[/quote]

Well this is 150 words max. I think it really just comes down to MAP-R scores, presuming everyone applying has straight As and is taking the most challenging classes available (like geometry for SMCS).[/quote]

They are super clear that is it NOT only MAP scores. 
The activities/achievements/essay is very important; it's just subjective and hard to make decisions for the large number of kids on the bubble, so the results are a bit arbitrary.

One hopes that a kid who likes working on his parent's car or who collects wild bugs to study is given the same credit as the kid who is shipped off to expensive camps, but who knows [/quote]

Oops, swap in the humanities version of that! 
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It's worse to have such subjective criteria. OP's kid clearly has well-resourced parents willing to drive him to a gazillion activities including at 4 am.  And accepting a kid because they write a compelling 150 word essay about the joys of working on their parent's car is also stupid.

Add that to the focus on using a single data point from the gameable MAP-M or MAP-R tests rather than COGAT and you have some very non-robust selection criteria for these magnet programs, despite some people on this board arguing that they're the best and brightest and the future discoverers of the cure of cancer.[/quote]

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