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I have a child with a high score that was also waitlisted and we are not Asian.  I think he was waitlisted because he scored highly advanced for math (MAP-M/grades) but only 1 year advanced for reading/literacy.  His friend got in who is at least 2 years advanced in reading with a similar score.  Because we don't know the breakdown of the scores I can't say if my theory is correct, but it makes sense if you consider that the HGC program is primarily a humanities program.[/quote]

I kind of agree with this.
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Yes. A related point having to do with sub-section scores--my understanding is that the breakdown between the three sections is important. Conventional wisdom is that you need to score very high (like 150s) on 2 sections, and at median (at worst) on the third to get in. Given how much writing and research is involved, does make sense to have some degree of emphasis on the reading score. [/quote]

That cannot be the conventional wisdom. The median of the admitted students means half of the admitted students scored lower than median. Plus I have not seen any center with median in 150. [/quote]

I am the PP who described the BOE opinion.  I wasn't agreeing that 150 was the needed score, just the principle that the subscores matter.  In prior years, when I think the test may have been harder judging from what people are saying on this thread, not that many admitted students scored 150 on any portion of the test.   Also, the median that apparently was reported this year was not the median of the accepted applicants, but just the median of the pool of applicants (again, just judging from what people have said on this thread).  In prior years, the report listed the median of the ADMITTED students.    [/quote]

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