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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]

Just one example. Last year my DC scored mid 150s on the verbal and quantitative, but barely at median, mid-130s, on non-verbal. Her overall SAS score was in the 140s (147 I believe), but the two very high sub-section scores likely led to her acceptance.

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One example, very possible. However, it cannot be generally true from a mathematical point of view. [/quote]

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