2018 AAP Admission Thread
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Anonymous
You can appeal all you want. Honestly, I don’t think it’s going to work. You have a bright kid who will do fine in gen ed. |
Anonymous
You already have the WISC, and that’s a decent enough score, you should appeal. |
Anonymous
| She can only appeal if she didn’t submit the WISc the first round. |
Anonymous
She got it 2 weeks ago. Parent referrals were due in January. |
Anonymous
Appeal has nothing to do with WISC. Appeal can be done with additional samples/recommendations etc, it does not have to include WISC. |
Anonymous
Sure, that's why we didn't apply for the AAP program again the following year - we're very happy with the Level III services he's receiving at his school. I was posting this info since some folks on here were wondering if the CogAT is weighed more heavily than the NNAT. |
Anonymous
Is your child at Va Run now, or in private? We are house-hunting in the area and have seen some houses zoned to VR/BR. Would love some more info on the school. |
Anonymous
| Should we expect a package or letter depending on an acceptance or not? |
Anonymous
She's in private now. She was at Virginia Run for about 4 months, in first grade. We switched to private because she was unhappy. Here is my impression of it, based on our short stint there. The school is fine. The facilities are nice, and they do have some amount of forward thinking, IMO. The staff is good. The PTA is VERY involved, and does a lot of good work - they raised enough funds to pay for a full time science teacher (who is good, and I liked the open ended projects she gave the kids, to allow them to think outside the box, to get to their solutions). Per the principal, if she needs funds, she lets the PTA know, and they will get her the money she needs. They have a part time AART; again, very nice, but I don't know how she has the bandwidth to do all that is expected of her. The school is not a LLIV, and as far as I know, there is not a lot of differentiation in the lower grades. DD left K (in a private school) doing multiplication and starting division, and she was stuck doing 'What is this number? Draw apples to show the number', along with everyone else. Her teacher was really very nice, and very responsive, and we had multiple sessions where I brought up my concerns with her, about keeping her challenged, but nothing was really done. She was in the highest reading group, but that was well below where she actually was reading, at the time. On these forums, it seems like there are schools where the principal and AART know the children really well. I did not get that impression from Virginia Run. I don't see how a part-time AART can get to know 700 students, and the principal once stated that the kids only get to see her when they're in really big trouble. |
Anonymous
Our acceptance was just a letter. The only other enclosure is a yellow form, that they want you to return, with your decision. As soon as I opened the letter, and saw the yellow in there, I knew what the decision was. |
Anonymous
Ours was a letter and a blue enclosure (accepted.) |
Anonymous
| Thanks, so I assume a denial just has one sheet? |
Anonymous
| Thanks, pp, for the detailed info about Va Run. I really appreciate it. |
Anonymous
DP. It sounds like a good school. It also sounds like PP's DC won't be happy in AAP either. |
Anonymous
This. In 3rd grade AAP math, PP’s kid is going to have to suffer through what she apparently learned in Kindergarten in private school. |