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Gowri Ramachandran, who has a child in Reed’s IHP, advocated against the relaxing of the admissions requirements.

Students in IHP programs work one to three years above grade level in math and study advanced reading materials.

Melissa Pope has a 10th-grade child who graduated from Twain’s IHP and a seventh-grader currently enrolled.

Adam Felber recalls that his son was “literally bored to tears” in school until he enrolled in Reed’s IHP program and began learning three years of math curriculum in one year.

Elaine Waldman, whose daughter is enrolled in Reed’s IHP, said the test is “elitist and exclusionary,” and hoped dropping it would improve the diversity of the program.