NNAT 158 Cogat 152 iready97% 99% - AAP Rejected - Why? What could not wrong

[Anonymous]

What can I do?

[Anonymous]

Ask for the submission and look at the HOPE scores.

[Anonymous]

I would appeal with work samples.

I have 2 kids in AAP. One was accepted and second child was rejected. I had to appeal and he got accepted. I basically wrote my own essay on him like I was applying for AAP and he submitted new work products. The work products submitted from school were sloppy and I don’t know if it was in error but the school has submitted some random math worksheet where he got a question wrong. We had not submitted any work products for the first round.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would appeal with work samples.

I have 2 kids in AAP. One was accepted and second child was rejected. I had to appeal and he got accepted. I basically wrote my own essay on him like I was applying for AAP and he submitted new work products. The work products submitted from school were sloppy and I don’t know if it was in error but the school has submitted some random math worksheet where he got a question wrong. We had not submitted any work products for the first round.

Same exactly. I wrote a letter and submitted new work samples (I had submitted some others initially but they weren’t very good, and the school didn’t submit good samples). Make sure there is a good writing sample.

[Anonymous]

Someone probably doesn’t like your kid and gave them bad hope scores.

[Anonymous]

Can I submit story written by my kid in appeal?
Or better if work samples related to science and math

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can I submit story written by my kid in appeal?
Or better if work samples related to science and math

Yes

[Anonymous]

Ask for the HOPE score and submit work samples that reflect some of the things they were dinged on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can I submit story written by my kid in appeal?
Or better if work samples related to science and math

Submit both - or at least the story

[Anonymous]

We got my kid's application package back in March. The school work samples the following:

page 1: two math sheets side by side

page 2: two drawings from prompt, such as drawing a picture from a poem

page 3 & 4: writings in response to a story or a cartoon, but each writing is addressing one of the nine critical thinking strategies, such as viewpoint (write about how a Escher-like painting can be viewed from different viewpoint, or how little boy, a bird, a mouse see a cat differently)

see the nine critical thinking strategy here,
https://www.fcps.edu/academics/elementary/advanced-academic-programs/critical-and-creative-thinking

The selection committee actually care about this stuff.

[Anonymous]

Definitely appeal. Just submit new work samples and write a letter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can I submit story written by my kid in appeal?
Or better if work samples related to science and math

Our AART has said over the past 4 years with 3 applications I've done that you want something language arts focused and something math focused, and if you have extra space then science.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We got my kid's application package back in March. The school work samples the following:

page 1: two math sheets side by side

page 2: two drawings from prompt, such as drawing a picture from a poem

page 3 & 4: writings in response to a story or a cartoon, but each writing is addressing one of the nine critical thinking strategies, such as viewpoint (write about how a Escher-like painting can be viewed from different viewpoint, or how little boy, a bird, a mouse see a cat differently)

see the nine critical thinking strategy here,
https://www.fcps.edu/academics/elementary/advanced-academic-programs/critical-and-creative-thinking

The selection committee actually care about this stuff.

+1. If you think about it, AAP is school work. Good work samples show your kid can handle the work. Parents should be thinking about the AAP packet like a private school application portfolio. But instead this board obsesses over minimum CogAT cut scores.