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It is not enhancing chances, it is fraud. Many families got unenrolled and banned from the selective enrollment for life as a result of their exploitation of the tier system.
So, what were you saying about free test taking?These tests are open to everyone including suburbanites and out of state people who do not pay taxes to the city of Chicago. CPS families are Chicago taxpayers, so the tests are really paid for from their taxes.
If you really want to go after people who exploit the system, you should go after those who play the tier game.No one received an official acceptance yet. The friend possibly got a perfect score, so just confident he would be accepted.
Yes, this would happen if someone with a higher score than yours added themselves to the rolling waitlist for the same school.
Received today Edison RGC for 5th grade, score 141.
Will be declining in case this information is helpful to someone waiting.You do not have to give up other choice offers. You can register the 2nd twin for one of them, e.g. Disney, and if later you receive a Bell offer for her, you will just un-register from Disney and register in Bell.
Accepting a choice school offer does not take you our of the pool for either other choice schools or SEES.
It is only when you accept an SEES, you are no longer in the SEES pool although still in the choice pool.
Good chance for SN with 99/99!
Will need to wait for people to report if they are staying or leaving. They sent a survey a couple weeks ago, but not everyone cares to let the school know they are not staying.
Congrats on scores and good luck!
Do you really believe that a 4-week test prep would make a whole lot of difference for someone who has been starved of enrichment opportunities for the past 12 years of their lives? I don’t think so.
We are in tier 4 but I absolutely believe in tiers as a way to achieve some equity, although I would rather tiers be determined by income not address to make it harder for people to game the system.
Tiers themselves are fair, what is not fair is when someone with income to buy multiple properties in any tier they want buys a 2nd or a 3rd house in tier 2 or 1 to gain advantage.
Location. Great students from the loop and south side of Chicago will not put NS as their first choice because of the commute there whereas Payron is conveniently located for both north and south siders resulting in a higher pool of applicants and as a result higher cut off scores historically.
You have to expose a child to enrichment opportunities throughout the entire life for test prep costing a few hundred bucks to be effective. Someone who did not know anything beyond school program will not benefit from a test prep, at least the benefit will be very marginal.
But what is merit? Does someone who has the resources to do test prep, various enrichment classes, hire a private tutor to study for the test have more merit and is more qualified?
Tiers are an attempt at some equity, but it is still a flawed system. It would be more fair though if tiers were based on income, not just address.
If you are saying half points are attributed to grades, not test scores, how do you explain a minimum score of 846.5 for tier 2 Northside? To get that score, you must have all A’s.
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