<p>Any insight on what the private mddle schools are looking for in the ISEE test scores?</p>
<p>fill me in…my son’s in a private middle school and I’ve never heard of that test…maybe he’s taken it and failed to tell me, but I doubt it…</p>
<p>Go to the High School thread, prpbably more help there, we did the SSAT and Iowa, ISEE is for admission to High School, or a standardized test for an FYI?</p>
<p>my daughter took this test to go to prep school
I don’t know anything about it other than it was loong.
<a href=“http://www.lakesideschool.org/admissions/ISEE/ISEEtesting.shtml[/url]”>http://www.lakesideschool.org/admissions/ISEE/ISEEtesting.shtml</a>
this link tells a bit about it though</p>
<p>There are different levels of ISEE…for both middle and high school. From what I can remember ;), they use to have one for just rising 6th graders too. The results range from stanines of 9 (high) to 1 (low). I believe stanines of 4 to 6 are considered average. And, yes, the exams are long.</p>
<p>Are average scores considered for entrance to 6th grade private/prep?</p>
<p>The ISEE is just one component considered by private/prep schools. There are also teacher recs and interviews…sounds just like college! The ISEE is not an easy exam…so scoring 5 or 6 is reasonable.</p>
<p>It really depends on what the kids in the application pool scored that year. Grades are also very important. I know several girls who were accepted with 4-5 scores at top schools, but they brought a lot to the table since one school was predominantly male, and both girls were excellent student with great ECs.</p>
<p>I have no idea what score my daughter recieved- she recieved a great deal ( over 60%) of financial aid at her school so I imagine they were very good, however she was only accepted to 2 of the 5 schools that she applied to, ( actually waitlisted). I imagined that the other schools already had their quota of petite blond girls who liked to read ( and actually she was applying for 6th grade & two schools started at 5th so their 6th grade slots were VERY competitive), if you could actually even PAY for your tuition that was probably also a plus!
We weren’t really in a panic about being waitlisted as she had always found the right school for her, and since we had had about a two hour conversation with admissions director, we felt it would all work out. After she was waitlisted we sent a card mentioning that we all really enjoyed the school, and she was accepted after that.</p>
<p>My son took the ISEE to apply to private middle,6th grade, last year and again this year for another school for 7th. We were told by the school he is now attending (local private) that they really do not consider kids who score below the 60th percentile unless there are extenuating circumstances. I haven’t read anything about the top tier privates/prep schools and what they are looking for but we are assuming that a Stanine 7 or 8 is what is needed to get pass the first cut, unless you stand out for some other reason. This is only my gut and I am sure kids with lower scores get in, but assume it is because they offer something the school is looking for or something unique (ie- irish inner city kid who plays jazz trumpet, etc.). </p>
<p>Of course most kids who apply meet the academic qualifications for the school so it really depends on how your interview went, and how the rest of your application looks. They gets lots of kids with good grades and good test scores, to increase your chances you have to offer something else.</p>
<p>ummm …it depends on the selectivity of the school and remember that the ISEE is only one component of the whole application (look whose talking) anyway, how did you guys do?</p>