Posted on 04/21/2024 2:16:32 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Four published books, debate trophies, perfect attendance and a 100 GPA weren’t enough to get a Queens eighth-grader into her dream high school.
Kristina Raevsky, 14, found out on March 7 she wasn’t accepted to Townsend Harris High School in Flushing because of a lottery system that grouped her perfect test scores with kids who scored over a 94.
“I was shocked,” Raevsky told The Post. “Everyone I told said, ‘How is this possible?’ And I told them, ‘I don’t know, it isn’t me that is the problem. The system is the problem. “Prior to the lottery, before COVID, my mindset was, ‘Well, I have a 100 average, I’m at the top of my class, I have perfect attendance, and I did well on the state tests . . . what could possibly go wrong?'”
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“Life is not a lottery,” she added. “When you go into the medical field, the law field, every single field, everything is based on merit.”
She say’s she’s a “Humanities kid” not a STEM kid. For a Humanities kid she is not keeping up with current events. In “New America” merit is out of fashion as are her race and religion.
FWIW, getting perfect grades in Humanities much easier than getting them in the sciences. I got A’s in all the required Humanities courses in college. Didn’t even have to study.
She earned a 4.0 GPA twenty five times!
What is a “100 GPA?”
That doesn’t map to any GPA I’ve ever experienced.
I’m assuming the equivalent of straight A’s, 4.0, etc.
Anyone that cares that much about school is also a bit of an idiot.
Maybe she’s not thinking just about herself, but of others who will get cheated as well.
“She should finish high school, skip college, and enter the real world. She’ll do far better in life.”
She is a humanities student. Will need a PhD top get a decent job.
Her other pursuit is politics. Probably a den.
Based on the photo and name, I was wondering if she’s Jewish.
Most of the students at her dream school (Townsend) are Asian:
https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/new-york/districts/new-york-city-public-schools/townsend-harris-high-school-13434
She seems to be a bright kid with a promising future.
With that said, the reaction to this story is a bit “off.”
She thinks her school grades should’ve entitled her to a spot at a top school.
I thought most freepers believe an admissions test should determine admission...? Because a 100 at one school might be a 94 at another.
She complains she wasn’t accepted into Townsend HS.
But, she was accepted into a top school - the Bronx HS of Science. She just doesn’t like STEM.
She’s going to a Catholic high school, so she’ll be fine.
My thoughts exactly.
It’s just a more precise scale.
A “4.0” would be 96 or above or sometimes 95 and above. 3.7 is 90 to 94/95..
High schools use it due to the competition for valedictorian/salutatorian.
Yes, read it in different versions elsewhere.
As a Jewish guy who went to a Roman school, I can tell you it’s less than ideal.
There are excellent Jewish schools in NYC. But they tend to be either absurdly leftist or Orthodox, which leaves the middle out, especially what looks to me like a conservative woman. (The orthodox schools tend to have a pretty narrow field of study for women.)
The young lady has an eponymous website.
It’s...interesting.
When I went to school you went to a school in a district based on your home address
Worked just fine
Like old cheese, America is rotting around the edges..
Yeah, I've notice around here it's the teachers own kids get the best grades and generally most of the scholarships.. They, of course would be the liberals in the district..
The story does seem odd. In the points below I will say “she” but I suspect her parents played a part in this.
She only applied for 2 schools when she had the option to apply for 12.
There are multiple other selective high schools in NYC.
She put Bronx Science as her first specialized high school even though it was too far away.
Queens High School for the Sciences (another specialized high school) is about as easy to get to from Forest Hills as Townsend Harris.
Despite having Science in the name it has a fantastic range of Humanities course https://qhss.org/course-offerings/
It feels like the parents were setting this up to make a point.
What is a “100 GPA”? I’m from the era when 4.0 was as high as it could get.
What went wrong is where she lives, and MAYBE having parents who voted for this garbage.
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