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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it would be useful if we all started treating this process more like college admissions and less like a foot race. There is just no way to know which one factor meant one kid got in and another kid did not or was wait-listed.

It would be easier if we could all just look at the November test scores and know that there is a certain threshold. But it is actually a pretty complicated universe of factors, including but not limited to home Elementary School, assigned Middle School, test scores, grades, earlier tests, and age.

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It's a mathematical process that makes (some) sense up to a certain point. When the committee starts looking at diversity and I mean that term broadly encompassing gender, school, geographic region, FARMS/ESOL, etc. it's really a crap shoot. It could be one committee member really advocated for a girl who had a perfect quant score, a good verbal score but not so great NV who might otherwise have been rejected. That committee member may have noticed that she's the only girl in that whole CES to score that high although maybe 10 boys scored that high and 2 got in and the rest got waitlisted or rejected. It could have been the other way around too with a boy who had an exceptional score in one area and got lucky. There also seem to be kids who didn't get lucky. There's one PP who posted a really high verbal score but the child didn't get in. I think that child could have easily gotten in if the right person had picked up his application and made a case for him in the right way to the other committee members.

Also keep in mind Eastern and TPMS magnets have completely different committees. I don't know how many from last year served again this year but last year there was a lot of overlap between Eastern and TPMS admits last year which certainly suggests, overall, they were looking for strength across multiple areas.
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