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CPS will release elementary school (Academic Centers are elementary 7th & 8th grade programs housed in high schools) offers for any programs applied to via the GoCPS applications (SEES & Choice Programs) as follows:
- APRIL 11th, 2025 – Results Released
- MAY 2nd, 2025 – Accept/Decline Deadline
- MAY 19th, 2025 – Rolling Waitlist Process Opens
- 2 BUSINESS DAYS AFTER OFFER ISSUED – Waitlist Accept/Decline Deadline
Please feel free to post results to share. Applicants may be offered one Selective Enrollment Academic Center offer along with one SE RGC/Classical offer (if applicable) and one Choice (lottery) offer. Their neighborhood school is always available for them to attend at any time.
For Academic Center offers, please include your Tier (7th grade only), 600 point total, and what order the school was ranked on your application.
Post Classical & Gifted SEES HERE or Post Choice (lottery) schools HERE. Good luck!
Here are videos on “Selections Process Explained”
Cutoff scores for 7th grade Academic Centers only will be posted here after 4/11/25. Guide to Understanding Rankings & Cutoff Scores is HERE.
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Does anyone know from prior years what time the results will show up on 4/11? Will we really have to wait until 5 pm? Thanks!
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It seems like they usually open things up sometime between 4-5:00
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For sehs results they released at 5pm but the site crashed so it took at least 20 minutes to actually see the results!
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The site is open. Results are posted
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Results are up.
I’ve got one into Lane – 552.5/600.
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What tier are you?
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557.5 Tier 2 – Offer from WY (1st Choice)
Scores seemed to go up quite a bit this year.
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Do they publish the cut off acceptance scores?
How far have they ggone down into the waitlist in years past?
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the cut score is up: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RUmvrTbe7j4gK3fEhrB8zWGL10aK4U9a/view
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590. Tier 2. Offer to Whitney 1st choice. Accepted.
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You sound like you knew how to study. I got declined… Any tips for next year?
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I see the offers but am not sure I’m looking at the scores correctly. Well I might be but the point calculations total are too high to be true so not sure if it’s just the rubric.
Is it “View Grades and Scores” to the right of “View Priorities?” And both links are below the student name, number and grade?
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I’m feeling the same way, like has there been some kind of mistake? I don’t see how he could have a RGC composite score of 160 or 300/300 RGC Point Total when he didn’t do well on his Verbal??
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Ok I’m not crazy then.
RGC Verbal 147
Non-Verbal 149
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Not crazy. 155 and 138, with a Composite of 160. 300/300 and 600/600. I also thought I was staring at rubrics, not my kid’s scores….
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600/600
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How did you study? I got declined and want to try again next year.
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Congratulations to everyone who received an offer!
My kiddo is a rising 6th grader, and we’re just starting to explore test prep. I’d love to hear any tips from those who’ve been through the process!
Also, does anyone happen to know which known test format is most similar to the CPS selective enrollment test? (For example, OLSAT..etc.?)
Thanks in advance!
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Not sure if this is the answer you want to hear but we signed up for a test prep course for around $500 and it appears to have made a big difference. The course was once/week, 6 sessions. The test was unlike anything he’d ever seen — puzzles, paper folding, pattern recognition.
Tier 4, 1st choice Lane, accepted.
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My twin and I got 545 and 552s on the test we are in tier 4 and nobody we know has gotten in neither have we
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Tier 4. 555/600 score
WY 1st rank no offer
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557.5 / Tier 4 – waitlisted 28 at Lane for 7th grade. Any sense in whether there is actually that much movement?
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Unfortunately, WY and Lane AC waitlists do not move at all. Other academic centers do.
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Does that mean that if you are waitlisted this year you most likely will not get in?
My friend was waitlisted at Lane Tech, will she probably not get in? -
Did Whitney tier 2 waitlist move up in the previous years?
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540, offered Kenwood.
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585 T4 WY Accepted
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547.5/600. Got an offer from Taft.
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T4, 557.5
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Can someone please explain these numbers/scores?
The Composite score doesn’t seem to have any relationship to the RGC Nonverbal and RGC Verbal scores. Does the Composite score reflect a percentile since his composite score is extremely high even though his Non-verbal and Verbal scores are only 155 and 138. Or is the Composite score just a different section of the test?
How is the RGC point total calculated? Is that based only on the RGC Composite Score?
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575 got into WY from tier 4. Son will probably pass because his best friends did not get in. But maybe he changes his mind in the coming weeks.
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575 got into WY from tier 4. Son will probably pass because his best friends did not get in. But maybe he changes his mind in the coming weeks.
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My kid is on Whiney Young waitlist #5 tier 2, how far down the waitlist normally get offer in the round 2 in the past years?
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Unfortunately, there is never a round 2 for WY or Lane.
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My daughter got a 600/600 Academic Center Point total. RGC Point total 300/300. Does this mean she got a perfect score on the test? Having trouble interpreting these results.
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Yes, sounds like a perfect score. Congrats!
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I was also curious. I don’t believe it means they got every problem correct but some kind of curved measure. My kid also got 600 but nonverbal=160, verbal=129, composite=160. Meaning some verbal problems got wrong unless it is out of 129?
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There seems to be way too many “perfect” scores (mine also had a 600) when in fact, our kids missed a lot of questions on the verbal, for instance. I’m trying not to worry that there’s been a mistake of some kind.
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Achieving the maximum score does not mean that a student received a perfect score. A 160 is likely so high that when the two sections are averaged, a 129 (out of 160) does not bring the overall score down below the maximum. If you’re not familiar with how these kinds of scaled scores work, then it helps to understand that a 129 is equivalent to approximately the 97th percentile, and a 160 would be in the >99.99th percentile.
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That makes sense, but don’t the percentiles change with each test so there’s no stable conversion (129 = 97th percentile)?
It looks like Verbal, for instance, was pretty difficult this year since kids with 129-138 still received a Composite Score of 160 (RGC Points = 300/300). Just trying to understand how this works since our daughter will be taking this in a couple of years.
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The application scoring system is made up of 2 parts:
Academic Center Entrance Exam
(50% of the total – 300 points)
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Previous year’s final grades for core subjects
(50% of the total – 300 pointsThe order that tie-breaker is run:
Composite Score
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Verbal Score
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On any scale where 160 is the maximum and 100 is the mean, a 129 will always be the 97th percentile. Also, I’d suspect what that really means is that the Verbal portion was easier, not harder, at least in terms of the raw score. There is likely a tighter clustering of scores at near the top for the Verbal portion, meaning that only a truly perfect score will qualify for the maximum score of 160. The Non-Verbal section probably has a wider spread of raw scores. I’d bet that the Non-Verbal section is more difficult but that the Verbal section is more competitive.
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Oh, this make sense. Thank you so much! While mine got 600 this time, we have a younger kid who may want to try it in a few years. This is very informative.
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Excuse me for the font format.
The verbal score only becomes significant when there’s a tie-breaker.
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When we took practice tests, I think my kid was scoring in the 140s and test prep told us this was low 90 percentile for that exam. He was getting around 15 questions wrong on practice exams and I guess CPS breaks that down into components (Verbal section, Non-Verbal Section)? By making the Non-Verbal section count more in a tie-breaker, they also seem to be prioritizing spatial and numerical problem solving over the Verbal section where learned content (like vocabulary) could make a difference. I asked the Test Prep coordinator for clarification on the scores CPS sent us.
For kids/parents asking about exam content, there was an emphasis on logic/problem solving questions that included things like paper folding, pattern recognition, etc. (I heard these questions are similar to what shows up on an IQ test but unsure if that’s accurate). This is an exam that ostensibly doesn’t test for learned knowledge (vocabulary or math) since that would penalize students in a lower performing school that didn’t cover that material. Like most standardized testing, paid prep makes a difference which likely gives Tier 4 an additional advantage over Tier 1.
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Is the format of the HSAT the same as the AC test, where the emphasis is on logic and problem solving as opposed to knowledge gained?
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No, students are tested on the gained knowledge.
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