JONATHAN CHAIT OCTOBER 28, 2010
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[Guest post by Isaac Chotiner]
The Times has a piece today on the tests given to children who apply to elite New York preschools. It turns out that the schools sometimes offer certain children a chance of taking another test, in case the kids' original scores were too low. Who are these kids?
[Amandy Uhry, a private school admissions adviser] said 2 percent to 5 percent of her clients each year were offered the option [of taking a re-rest].
“Usually the people who get a retest are in some way connected to the school, or seriously a very, very excellent candidate,” she said, like a celebrity’s child or one with very wealthy parents willing to contribute to the school’s endowment.
The new measure of excellence: having a celeb parent!
5 comments
What's the Times' next scoop? That Nixon resigned?
- dubyadoubte
October 28, 2010 at 10:23am
Well, what else would you expect in our celebrity-drenched culture?
- liberal reformer
October 28, 2010 at 11:46am
I'm far more shocked that this was considered news - and news worth reposting, at that - than at the actual content.
- ATuring
October 28, 2010 at 12:26pm
Eh, celebrity, money. Endowment, money. Why only note the celebrity measure? Agree with ATuring. Is it really a surprise that money is a key factor in this type of school's administration decisions.
- jet
October 28, 2010 at 1:34pm
Now don't tell me the Pope's a Catholic!
- kras
October 29, 2010 at 10:00am