<p>We recently found out we are relocating to a new city this summer and thus got a late start on the admissions process for our rising 6th grade DS to attend local competitive day schools. DS scored in the 82nd percentile overall on SSAT Flex test (with very little time for prep); results were sent to schools prior to application deadlines. We were concerned the SSAT score was low (all subscores were in the high 70s to low 80s) so we had DS take the ISEE the following week. If the ISEE scores were better than the SSAT scores, we would send them to the schools as supplemental information. Just received ISSE scores - 99% verbal, 97% reading, 87% math reasoning and 58% math achievement. The last one is not a typo. The math score is way out of line with DS's grades and SSAT quantitative score. DS had traveled to the new city the weekend of the test, and I believe lost stamina at the end of the test (this was DS's second 3 hour standardized test within a week). </p>
<p>I'm concluding that we should not submit the ISEE results as doing so could have the opposite effect we want; that is, the AO could focus on the negative rather than the positive subscores. However, since I'm new to all this, I'd love to hear from this group if somehow these ISEE scores may be viewed positively. For example, most of these schools have indicated that if a child has taken the SSAT more than once, they would look at each respective highest subscore (and presumably disregard the lower ones). Unfortunately DS does not have time to take another SSAT, which at the earliest would be March 1. DS's grades are good, and interviews have been positive. </p>