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If 99 x 3 on ERB is supposed to be top 1%, why does it seem like everyone's kids get this. Hard to believe parents would lie about this
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No, I think it is more common in NYC (remember ERB is a national test) and is particularly common for older DDs. But it isn't as common as UB makes it sound. And it isn't more special than a 96, 97 or 98. You aren't getting in based on ERB; you just aren't ruled out at that level.
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nr: I find this very hard to believe. The erb is NOT a widely used test at all any more. The only people using it to my knowledge are those applying to private school. Since it is a bell curve grade it seems impossible to get the scores that people say they are all getting here. I don"t get it.
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fair enough. What I really want to know is at what score are you just screwed? I mean I don't think that anyone here is honest about that!
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look at it like this - 5000 dc take the ERB; 1% is still 50 kids. Now, rememeber that overall the kids taking the ERB in NYC for admission to private school are coming from educated parents, have gone to preschool, and are at every advantage when it comes to testing 4yos. They are not the national average. So the number socring in the top 1% nationwide, could easily be 100 or maybe even more.
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'chose to' and many go on to public due to financing and many take it and finances change not every 50 (if indeed the top 1% only includes straight 99x3) is going to end up competing at admissions time. Half of those will be boys and there are many many private schools. It is juts not a threatening number no matter how you slice it.
[ Reply | More ]I bet it gets more common every year due to prepping. A few years ago, one DOA at a tt we interviewed at commented on it and made it sound like it was not that common. But part of me thinks she mentioned it to gauge our reaction or see if we boosted about it.
[ Reply | More ]Maybe. But when we were DCs everyone said their dc got top 1% or close to it, and there was prepping and tutors and the whole thing. My brother was top 1% and got in everywhere, that was unheard of even then. I still think its less common, but maybe not. I tend to think after 3rd grade when all the schools shake out people land where they belong on the whole
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never said it was - although i think that most dc who get 99x3 apply as they are going to be good candidates for FA. Getting a 99 on the ERB means you get a score that represents the top 1% nationwide of kids that age. Not that the top 1% of current test takers get 99. So a lot more than 1% could in theory get that score.
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Top 1% based on NATIONAL norm. Nationally, kids are not that smart nor are they prepped like the kids from NYC whose parents can pay $450 for erb. Plus, NYC attracts smart parents whose genes kids inherit. Also we're talking about parents who can pay $35k after taxes. It's a sub-, sub-, sub-group of NYC families. Not surprising at all.
[ Reply | More ]again - who else and for what other purpose is anyone administering this test NATIONALLY?? I really would like to know because every admin I know in other parts of the country are NOT working with this test.
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