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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.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rHkqLClX76NLOXv3O65WiL9xY1UJla6b/view?usp=drivesdk
Why wouldn’t 899 be possible? I see even scores with decimals on the cutoff sheet from last year. It just happened to be so that 899 was nowhere a maximum or a minimum score for any tier or school, but that does not mean no one got a score of 899.
Someone reported on a different forum an area south of Univeristy of Chicago went from tier 2 to tier 1.
Most people whose tier got lowered do not complain on here, but rub their hands happy instead, that’s why it feels like everyone’s tier went up because those are the people to speak up.
We have a mom at SN with 2 kids, one at SN and 2nd at Bell.
The thing is she had them both at SN, but then the older one tested into Bell and she accepted and transferred one of them from SN into Bell. Not sure if she is trying to get the younger one into Bell eventually, but for now driving both kids into two different schools.
Bell is closer to their home though.
