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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Or at Bronx Science because you needed to come in having already taken Geometry to make it into the top tier of students who will even be considered for the precious spots for APs.[/quote]

Is this still true? I thought they had switched to mostly grade-based admissions for QE courses. You can go directly from Precalculus to BC, they don't require you to take AB first like some schools, so the 4-year sequence of Geometry -> Algebra II -> Precalculus -> BC Calculus is totally doable as long as you did Regents Algebra in 8th.[/quote]

I think there are ways to catch up, but I get the point that the poster was making...the idea that your child deserves to be in the top just by virtue of going to a certain school for elementary is not realistic. Life doesn't work that way yet on this board the entitlement is real, and people tend to say "I'd rather move to a good public school" or, "my child will just go to BT" and they assume that the same issues of their child not being in the top tier won't persist, and if they just move to public school their kid will get into a top Ivy. That presumption is not correct.[/quote]

Her kid wasn’t just at a decent K-8. The student scored well enough on the ISEE and in his or her grades to go to a TT. Then the K-8 is telling her not to apply.

Where do median students at Buckley and St Bs and St David’s go? Genuinely curious what all that tuition and stress gets you. You know it’s not HM or Collegiate. [/quote]

No one knows.

What happens if her kid got in HM from K?  Would her kid stand out at HM?
What happens if her kid did get in HM 9th grade?  Would her kid get in an ivy eventually?[/quote]

Someone here should know where median students at K-8s people strive to get in are going.

Those what ifs aren’t the issue. The issue is performing well on every metric for years, paying a fortune, and then being told a 3T school is the best option. That’s a failure of communication [/quote]

I'm not being unkind, but it's not clear that OP's child was performing well on every metric. OP reports high standardized test scores in early grades, which we all know are largely meaningless because they point to preparation/SES of the parents, not mastery or potential. She reports social issues and impulsivity problems, and says they were not academic issues, but doesn't have grades to point to. She references medium-high more recent test scores "with no prep" but then says he took them several times, which is prep!

OP asked the school if he needed tutoring, and they said no, but that's not actually the same as performing well.[/quote]

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