127 WISC

[Anonymous]

Didn't submit with initial package, worth sending on appeal?

Verbal was 139, fluid reasoning 131 .... dragged down by visual spatial and processing speed....

[Anonymous]

Depends. What were scores on cogat? That’s a high verbal score, if verbal is low on Cogat, I’d use the wisc to counter that and submit work samples.

[Anonymous]

yes -- COGAT verbal was 115, everything else in 130s

[Anonymous]

Won't get in if you don't try. Don't accept the BS that there's a cut-off. I had this conversation ... "if you are telling me that DC's score of X is too low, can you assure me that no other student will be accepted with a lower score?"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:yes -- COGAT verbal was 115, everything else in 130s

If you end up needing to appeal, yes, I would def submit WISC and I’d highlight that verbal score. I did that for my child who had the same scenario - similar verbal score on cogat and 139 on wisc. I also submitted high 90s iready from winter (fall was in the original packet), writing samples, and PRF scores to show the full picture that the verbal cogat score was the outlier. DC got in on appeal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Won't get in if you don't try. Don't accept the BS that there's a cut-off. I had this conversation ... "if you are telling me that DC's score of X is too low, can you assure me that no other student will be accepted with a lower score?"

Counterpoint: sometimes the AART/teacher needs to tell the parent that their little Einstein isn't an Einstein and the parent won't listen to the teacher's subjective observations that led to that conclusion, so the AART/teacher provides concrete evidence (like <99tile scores) to bolster their conclusion.

So the AART can't tell you that another kid Joe with low test scores won't get in, because it might be the case that Joe exhibits genius qualities that observable, but not recorded on the NNAT/CogAT. The point that the AART/teacher is making is that your Einstein doesn't exhibit those same qualities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Didn't submit with initial package, worth sending on appeal?

Verbal was 139, fluid reasoning 131 .... dragged down by visual spatial and processing speed....

Definitely submit. They care the most about the Verbal and Fluid reasoning, and both of these are high. Did the tester give you a GAI score, and if so, what was that? If the GAI was 130 or higher, I'd include the WISC with the initial submission.