Harvard Hopeful

smileygerl
Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:28:25 +0000

I agree large gains in test scores are seen in the two examples you provided, language and relocation.

Underserved high schools are in poor areas. Very rarely do these families inherit enough money to afford a home in an area with a high performing high school (many NMSF) as your son’s. Therefore this information will be virtually nonexistent.

As for my daughter, I will never know what her score would have been at age 13. I do know she raised her score from a 26 to a 32 within 5 mos with very little test prep. There is no doubt in my mind that she could score a 34. Scoring a 34 is still less than 2 std dev.

I agree it would be impossible for her to score greater than 3 std dev which would be a score of 42.