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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Rent an apartment in one of the school districts.  [/quote]

Another tiger tj parent. [/quote]

I thought the schools with the highest admit rate were in McLean and Langley feeders. [/quote]

Yes, but students who were not admitted at those schools had higher scores than students who were admitted at the weaker schools.
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Well, if that is true, [b]and there's no real evidence of that[/b], some schools are demonstrably better than others. Many people pay hundreds of thousands more to live in those school boundaries. It isn't right to penalize kids who are just as bright but lack the same advantages. [/quote]

DP.  FCPS has not released the cutoff scores for the top 1.5% of each school.  So you are correct that there's no evidence that a higher score is required to make it into the top 1.5% of a McLean school vs. a lower SES school.  What we do know is that after the top 1.5% is taken, the rest of the applicants are selected from a common pool based on their scores.  Some schools had zero kids selected.  Others had 30.  So, we flat out know that the 40th best kid at, say, Carson had a higher score than the 9th best kid (who didn't get picked in the general pool) at one of the schools only sending their top 1.5%.  
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The claim is that the 41st kid, and many more,  at Carson is higher than the 8th best kid and thus would benefit from a transfer.[/quote]

Here's the problem. At a place like Carson, it's hard to know if your kid is the 70th best or the 120th best - and one of the reasons for this change in the admissions process is that it's not reasonable to suggest that the 3rd most qualified kid from say, Holmes, is less deserving than the 80th strongest from Carson. There really isn't nearly as much difference between these kids as you think there is in terms of readiness for the course load that they're going to take at TJ. [/quote]

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