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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does anyone know many points was saying yes to FARMS worth? [/quote]

90 points [/quote]

How many total possible points?[/quote]

Not sure what it means? I think they just added 90 points to total[/quote]

How many points were the other components worth? GPA. Essays etc [/quote]
300 GPA, 300 SPS, 300 Math/Science test. up to 225 additional experience points of which meals was 90.[/quote]
Stop lying on these threads.  GPA is only worth 37.5 points, with a minimum possible value of 262.5 through a maximum of 300.  The meals bonus was worth over twice as many points as the entire span from a 3.5 GPA through a 4.0.  [/quote]

Huh?[/quote]

According to the rubric that was made public as part of discovery during the ongoing lawsuit, the score for GPA is 75 * GPA.

Since there is a 3.5 minimum GPA required to be eligible to apply and a 4.0 maximum GPA based on how it was calculated for the purposes of the application, every student will have. GPA score between 362.5 and 400.

As such, the maximum difference in terms of GPA between any two applicants is 400 - 362.5 = 37.5.

To say that GPA is worth 300 points, while strictly true, is misleading, since every applicant earns at least 362.5 of those points.

Since the experience factors are worth either 45 or 90 points each, that means that a 3.5 GPA combined with any experience factor outweighs a 4.0 GPA with no experience factors. In other words, the experience factors are extremely valuable.[/quote]

Not that valuable. Only 12% of total possible score.

Almost irrelevant since almost everyone accepted had 4.0.

The high-point components of the application are:
300 for the SPS 
300 for the math/science essay

They comprise the vast majority of the applicant’s score. If a kid didn’t get in, they probably didn’t write an exceptional essay or portrait. 
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The essay was apparently very easy and most of the portrait has nothing to do with STEM

The whole thing was/is a disaster.
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