AAP letters

[Anonymous]

In my experience, acceptance is very uneven. (we did 10 years of it altogether) many kids who are not really academic enough are accepted, and struggle and cry through the whole process, and others are not accepted who could have done it with ease. In some schools, military is automatic in, in other PTA is. They love to accept one from a family and reject another. This was done to keep kids in their home schools. With the new policy of not using centers, they may not do this. They put up a lot of mystery. If you feel your child qualifies, appeal. Many, many win on appeal and their kids do fine.

[Anonymous]

Well good luck with the fids not finiding out who is "smart" and who is "slower". The school makes such a big issue the kids would have to be of limited understanding to not get this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Twins, one in one out. Yikes.

Appeal!

[Anonymous]

Has anyone received letters from Union Mill elem?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:anyone from Lees corner got the in pool letter?

If you believe the conflicting reports:

Lees Corner:
In-pool letter: Yes (by mail, Sat. 1/19)
CogAT scores: Not yet

I have a strong feeling that one person has written every post in that thread. There hasn't been a single modification in format, punctuation, or capitalization in any single post. They're all identical.

Or simply... each poster just copied the previous answer and only changed the name of the school, as applicable...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone received letters from Union Mill elem?

Nope. I called and they had no clue (or were not willing to share) when they would be sent out. Last year also we were the one of the last ones to receive the NNAT scores.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Twins, one in one out. Yikes.

Appeal!

If one gets in, you could always claim that they are biologically identical, therefore the other kid has also made the cut.

Right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In my experience, acceptance is very uneven. (we did 10 years of it altogether) many kids who are not really academic enough are accepted, and struggle and cry through the whole process, and others are not accepted who could have done it with ease. In some schools, military is automatic in, in other PTA is. They love to accept one from a family and reject another. This was done to keep kids in their home schools. With the new policy of not using centers, they may not do this. They put up a lot of mystery. If you feel your child qualifies, appeal. Many, many win on appeal and their kids do fine.

I am part of a large military community. All but one of the military kids I know who applied as transfer students from out of state were accepted. ALL of those kids were qualified and enrolled in gifted programs in other states, and in some cases multiple states. ALL of those kids had testing scores that placed them in at least 98%; most of them had test scores in the 99% range.

None of those kids were greenlighted into AAP just because they were military. Ffx does not have time to play that kind of petty game, and to imply that military kids only get in because they are military is just wrong.

Most of the military kids are actually enrolled at their base schools. Several military families have only one kid in AAP and the rest are in gen ed. The military kids who are enrolled in AAP are there because that is where they need to be. They are not there because they are military, but in spite of it. Most of them have attended 3-5 elementary schools in as many years, and have had an inconsistent education, but are still exceptionally bright kids who were placed in AAP for all the right reasons, none of which have anything to do with being military.

[Anonymous]

I just emailed DD's teacher to let her know I will be doing a parent referral if she is not in pool (she is encouraging us to apply and I wanted to let her know we would) and she has not heard anything about when scores will go out. She actually asked me to let her know when I get them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Still waiting for Mosby Woods but pretty sure we should get in pool letter based upon NNAT score. I will post when/if it comes.

Promised I would update...got the in pool letter in today's mail from Mosby Woods.

[Anonymous]

We should be getting a letter based on the NNAt, but I wonder if the schools are waiting until the weekend to send it so they don't have to deal with the parent calls.

[Anonymous]

Thank you, 16:26. We are Mosby Woods too but unfortunately did not get a letter.

[Anonymous]

@16:32, I think you are correct. I remember last year the letters came from our school on Friday or Saturday of this long weekend, which gave parents only a week to decide if they wanted to put in a referral.

[Anonymous]

I got a pool letter today from Providence Elementary. Have not received the CogAt scores yet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In my experience, acceptance is very uneven. (we did 10 years of it altogether) many kids who are not really academic enough are accepted, and struggle and cry through the whole process, and others are not accepted who could have done it with ease. In some schools, military is automatic in, in other PTA is. They love to accept one from a family and reject another. This was done to keep kids in their home schools. With the new policy of not using centers, they may not do this. They put up a lot of mystery. If you feel your child qualifies, appeal. Many, many win on appeal and their kids do fine.

PP, exactly how many elementary schools did you enroll your children in that you would have all this knowledge about the enrollment and placement at so many different centers?

You must have moved center schools every year to have such valuable information