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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The tests and recs would end up looking similar. Asking teachers at some of the MS to write recs or do evaluations would mean no time for grading. How many kids apply from Carson, Longfellow, Cooper, Rocky Run, Kathrine Johnson and some of the others?

Mathcounts scores for winners, top 12, and the top 20 are separated by one or two answers.

If you are upset by this process, you are likely to be devastated by the College process in 4 years. When you have the number of applicants that apply to TJ, or the colleges I know you are targeting, the results are not going to be easily understood. Like it or not, there were 2,762 kids that met the criteria that the County set and the vast majority of those kids are 4.0 students in Geometry or A2H. They can’t all make it in. [/quote]

Are you saying that testing would not result in a materially different entering class?  Because that sounds pretty unlikely to me.[/quote]

I think that most of the kids with A1H only and lower GPAs are coming from the schools filling quota and fewer from the feeder schools. I think that you have a lot of kids that look very similar on paper and tests are not going to change that because these are kids who excel in STEM and many have experience in competitions, math or science based. My kid is at Carson and participate in the STEM clubs, the kids who got in are not that different then the kids waitlisted. I could not tell you why the ones who got in where selected over the kids who were waitlisted.  [/quote]

The waitliested kids should've taken the essay writing class @Curie. My neighbor said it was like the golden ticket. [/quote]

There are 500+ stuidents who are taking this at Curie. Admit rate is virtually identical to the overall rate![/quote]

Yeah, that is BS and you know it. My kid has never taken a class at Curie and he was admitted. And plenty of places offer essay writing prep. It is not a surprise that kids take the classes, some take them because their parents make them, some ask to take them. I am guessing a good number of kids prepped for the writing element.

I would guess that a good number of waitlisted kids took the prep classes. The kid I am thinking of took summer geometry and a writing class. I know for a fact that not all the kids in Carsons A2H class were accepted, a good number were waitlisted.

We don’t know how they distinguish the kids who are accepted from the kids who are waitlisted and who are not accepted. And all the ways that people suggest to try and make it more fair are 1) deemed unfair by someone else 2) gamable. And even if they do chose the kids that everyone thinks are amazing, some of those kids will struggle. Just like happened in A1H in 7th. Even with the IAAT and Passing Advance on the SOL and high iReady scores, there were kids who took A1H and struggled.

There is no perfect system. I am sorry your kid didn’t get in, that would hurt. But they might not have gotten in under whatever system you think is best because 2,762 kids applied for 550 seats. Some great candidates were going to not make the cut. [/quote]

Bunch of kids we know were at Curie… some spending entire days there. They didn’t get in. Even other top preps. Waitlisted.

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Just entire day, what about evening and night?  :)

What Curie location? DC finds their math curriculum extremely difficult, dropped midway.  [/quote]

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