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I heard that 10s of thousands left CPS for this fall due to Covid and reopening uncertainty, moving, or not being comfortable with precautions. Also many schools did not fill seats in 2020-at all. The effect is that SEES necessary scores to some degree have dropped and magnets who never had space before have spots in various grades. Fall will ve a big (and late) shuffle as parents move around to better options within CPS. Anyone else experienced this? AC cutoffs appear to be down for some tiers. I had an experience getting an offer for SEES upper-grade classical with a score that was above cutoff, but not that great. I think more late calls will come so if you are waiting, there is hope!
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Yes scores were down I think due to the various dynamics of COV-19 and virtual learning and the teachers doing a great job turning in person learning into virtual learning in a very short time. However I do believe those students will make up lose time and instruction. What was exposed was the gap between the higher income and lower income households.
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Not my experience, although I applied to the upper grade… so far still on WL for schools with WL #1, 3, 18 and 20… no RGC either with score of 146… losing my hope with 2 weeks left 🙁
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The number of kindergarten applicants are printed on the letter OAE sends with your child’s score. This years application numbers were the same as someone had reported was printed on their letter in a previous year. So SEES kindergarten application numbers were not down. Could there have been more declines then normal… we will never know. It’s hard to really compare this year to previous years well, as we only have a small sample size. We don’t have cutoff scores like AC’s. You have to also consider the possibility that one test question could be easier or more difficult (I’m assuming that they modify the questions from year to year) could change the average score by a point or two! You could be right about a higher likelihood in obtaining a seat in an upper grade, but with how coveted the SEES seats… wonder how many would leave?
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That is not true. OAE will only have a set number of rounds and cutoffs were not decreased.
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