Does mathnasium, kumon etc.. count as a DING against AAP admissions?

[Anonymous]

Anyone know? I heard these classes count against AAP admissions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone know? I heard these classes count against AAP admissions.

Q. Does mathnasium, kumon etc.. count as a DING against AAP admissions?

A. No


(Who makes up this stuff anyway?)

[Anonymous]

How would a committee know?

[Anonymous]

It could affect GBRS if the teacher knows and thinks she can't keep up without it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone know? I heard these classes count against AAP admissions.

Where did you hear this?

If it wasn't directly from someone who actually is part of the admissions process (teacher or AART etc.) then it's parental hearsay and nothing more.

Please don't stress over this, OP, and if your child is doing tutoring or classes and it's helping your child here and now, please don't stop doing it because of some mythical rumor that it might hurt AAP admission. It won't. Even if the teacher knows about it. The teacher spends many, many more hours each week around your child than a Kumon tutor or other tutor spends with your child, so the teacher knows whether or not your child will be able to do AAP work, regardless of whether your child's doing any of these programs.

Just don't give it another thought.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone know? I heard these classes count against AAP admissions.

Where did you hear this?

If it wasn't directly from someone who actually is part of the admissions process (teacher or AART etc.) then it's parental hearsay and nothing more.

Please don't stress over this, OP, and if your child is doing tutoring or classes and it's helping your child here and now, please don't stop doing it because of some mythical rumor that it might hurt AAP admission. It won't. Even if the teacher knows about it. The teacher spends many, many more hours each week around your child than a Kumon tutor or other tutor spends with your child, so the teacher knows whether or not your child will be able to do AAP work, regardless of whether your child's doing any of these programs.

Just don't give it another thought.

I am now also concerned because she is taking Kumon for fun and I included an honor roll certificate as an optional material.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone know? I heard these classes count against AAP admissions.

Where did you hear this?

If it wasn't directly from someone who actually is part of the admissions process (teacher or AART etc.) then it's parental hearsay and nothing more.

Please don't stress over this, OP, and if your child is doing tutoring or classes and it's helping your child here and now, please don't stop doing it because of some mythical rumor that it might hurt AAP admission. It won't. Even if the teacher knows about it. The teacher spends many, many more hours each week around your child than a Kumon tutor or other tutor spends with your child, so the teacher knows whether or not your child will be able to do AAP work, regardless of whether your child's doing any of these programs.

Just don't give it another thought.

I am now also concerned because she is taking Kumon for fun and I included an honor roll certificate as an optional material.

While we can only guess, I don't think it is harmful, but I don't think it is helpful either. Isn't Kumon the type of instruction that would result in work samples the committee isn't interested in?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone know? I heard these classes count against AAP admissions.

Where did you hear this?

If it wasn't directly from someone who actually is part of the admissions process (teacher or AART etc.) then it's parental hearsay and nothing more.

Please don't stress over this, OP, and if your child is doing tutoring or classes and it's helping your child here and now, please don't stop doing it because of some mythical rumor that it might hurt AAP admission. It won't. Even if the teacher knows about it. The teacher spends many, many more hours each week around your child than a Kumon tutor or other tutor spends with your child, so the teacher knows whether or not your child will be able to do AAP work, regardless of whether your child's doing any of these programs.

Just don't give it another thought.

I am now also concerned because she is taking Kumon for fun and I included an honor roll certificate as an optional material.

While we can only guess, I don't think it is harmful, but I don't think it is helpful either. Isn't Kumon the type of instruction that would result in work samples the committee isn't interested in?

I didn't turn in as a work sample, honor roll certificate showing that she loves math. I don't know if the care to see it or not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone know? I heard these classes count against AAP admissions.

Where did you hear this?

If it wasn't directly from someone who actually is part of the admissions process (teacher or AART etc.) then it's parental hearsay and nothing more.

Please don't stress over this, OP, and if your child is doing tutoring or classes and it's helping your child here and now, please don't stop doing it because of some mythical rumor that it might hurt AAP admission. It won't. Even if the teacher knows about it. The teacher spends many, many more hours each week around your child than a Kumon tutor or other tutor spends with your child, so the teacher knows whether or not your child will be able to do AAP work, regardless of whether your child's doing any of these programs.

Just don't give it another thought.

I am now also concerned because she is taking Kumon for fun and I included an honor roll certificate as an optional material.

While we can only guess, I don't think it is harmful, but I don't think it is helpful either. Isn't Kumon the type of instruction that would result in work samples the committee isn't interested in?

I didn't turn in as a work sample, honor roll certificate showing that she loves math. I don't know if the care to see it or not.

No certificate or other paper can show a child loves math. The honor roll will say nothing to the committee other than your kid is in Kumon which wont really help or hurt.

[Anonymous]

A parent said it hurt the gbrs scores and tried to make the kid lie and got caught

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone know? I heard these classes count against AAP admissions.

Where did you hear this?

If it wasn't directly from someone who actually is part of the admissions process (teacher or AART etc.) then it's parental hearsay and nothing more.

Please don't stress over this, OP, and if your child is doing tutoring or classes and it's helping your child here and now, please don't stop doing it because of some mythical rumor that it might hurt AAP admission. It won't. Even if the teacher knows about it. The teacher spends many, many more hours each week around your child than a Kumon tutor or other tutor spends with your child, so the teacher knows whether or not your child will be able to do AAP work, regardless of whether your child's doing any of these programs.

Just don't give it another thought.

I am now also concerned because she is taking Kumon for fun and I included an honor roll certificate as an optional material.

While we can only guess, I don't think it is harmful, but I don't think it is helpful either. Isn't Kumon the type of instruction that would result in work samples the committee isn't interested in?

I didn't turn in as a work sample, honor roll certificate showing that she loves math. I don't know if the care to see it or not.

No certificate or other paper can show a child loves math. The honor roll will say nothing to the committee other than your kid is in Kumon which wont really help or hurt.

Agreed. Two of my kids love math and are great at it, but I've never considered Kumon and they wouldn't want to do it.