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Our strategy in a nutshell is to compare the scores of exam school applicants
who barely clear the admissions cuto to the scores of those who fall just below.
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It may well be that being a big fish in a less competitive pond is actually better for outcomes like SAT score then being the littlest fish in the most competitive pond. I think it depends on the student. It may well be that the measurable effects would be on the students who score the highest going into a selective school - because they have been sandbagged the most. Of course finding good outcome measurement for that group is tricky - probably not enough headroom in the SATs to demonstrate some very real differences.

((shrugs))
Grinity

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