WPPSI scores and DC privates

[Anonymous]

What is the kind of score that the top schools are generally interested in? Obviously there is so much more to getting in then the score, but I have no idea what the test is like and just curious what results the schools are looking for.

[Anonymous]

All this talk about schools and no one knows what they cutoff scores are?

[Anonymous]

There are not necessarily cut-off scores, though it may be a stretch for a Big 3 school to admit a child with dramatically divergent verbal and performance scores, subtest scores in single digits, etc. OTOH, scores in the 90s are not a guarantee of admission at any school.

[Anonymous]

I'm just wondering what is considered a good score by the schools. For instance in NY all anyone ever says is that for the ERB you have to have a 95+.

[Anonymous]

I was told by a local tester that "high average" is probably average in this population. Anecdotally it seems unusual for a child with scores below the 85th percentile to be admitted to a highly competitive school, and plenty of kids with scores in the 99th percentile are also shut out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All this talk about schools and no one knows what they cutoff scores are?

Wow, your initial question was at 22:44 and this one was only 15 minutes later? A mite anxious about this, aren't you? Perhaps you should work on developing the patience to wait for an answer.

[Anonymous]

That's because she's clearly from NYC; impatience, erroneous belief that schools have clear ERB, I mean, WPPSI cut-offs like schools do in New York ...

[Anonymous]

My dd, non-legacy, got into one of the big 3 with WPPSI in 83%ile, and is now a top reader. The 99%ile kids (I am assuming that every other child- other than mine is 99%ile) are reading at lower levels. The only two that read better than dd are kids of teachers. I guess, those 99%ile kids will show their stuff later,... oh, did I mention that my dd is one of the youngest in her class? Summer b-day, non red shirt.

[Anonymous]

... and modest too.

[Anonymous]

15:54--While it's nice that you believe that your child is doing well, I don't believe that you could know with CERTAINTY that your child is a better reader than most kids in the class and that everyone else is a dunce. How could you possibly know that? Is it because the teacher is sharing confidential test results with you? I doubt it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:15:54--While it's nice that you believe that your child is doing well, I don't believe that you could know with CERTAINTY that your child is a better reader than most kids in the class and that everyone else is a dunce. How could you possibly know that? Is it because the teacher is sharing confidential test results with you? I doubt it.

I have not said dunce. I do know the reading level. Will not explain. BUT, the point is that WPPSI does not explain everything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:15:54--While it's nice that you believe that your child is doing well, I don't believe that you could know with CERTAINTY that your child is a better reader than most kids in the class and that everyone else is a dunce. How could you possibly know that? Is it because the teacher is sharing confidential test results with you? I doubt it.

I have not said dunce. I do know the reading level. Will not explain. BUT, the point is that WPPSI does not explain everything.

You came across as arrogant and obnoxious. I'm glad that we're not at one of the so-called big three, or I'd be trying to figure out who you are so I could avoid you like the plague.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:15:54--While it's nice that you believe that your child is doing well, I don't believe that you could know with CERTAINTY that your child is a better reader than most kids in the class and that everyone else is a dunce. How could you possibly know that? Is it because the teacher is sharing confidential test results with you? I doubt it.

I have not said dunce. I do know the reading level. Will not explain. BUT, the point is that WPPSI does not explain everything.

You came across as arrogant and obnoxious. I'm glad that we're not at one of the so-called big three, or I'd be trying to figure out who you are so I could avoid you like the plague.

Sadly competitive and with an inferiority complex to boot. Let it go, 15:54, and be glad no one else is bragging about how much better their child is than yours.

[Anonymous]

10:47 I'm used to a different kind of forum that moves much more quickly than this one. But rather then actually answer the question is all you have to offer me the idea that I need to work on patience? Perhaps you can work on being constructive and helpful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:10:47 I'm used to a different kind of forum that moves much more quickly than this one. But rather then actually answer the question is all you have to offer me the idea that I need to work on patience? Perhaps you can work on being constructive and helpful.

10:47 here. As someone else replied before my post, there is no fixed answer to your question. There is an unspoken forum etiquette, however, that one doesn't post a question at almost 11 PM and then 15 minutes later post a rude and impatient follow-up implying that we're all ignorant because we didn't "hop to it" and reply immediately with a definitive answer to your question.