Anyone's child do well enough on the COGAT to get into AAP, after not so great NNAT?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: And before people start assuming the child must have been a minority, the child was white.

I'm not trying to turn this into a racial thread but do minority kids get some sort of preference to get into AAP? Extra points or something for being a part of a minority group? Which minority groups? How does the committee even know the child is in a minority group? I have never heard of this before. Is this true?

[Anonymous]

Yes, they have Young Scholars, which is just for "under-served" populations (poor minority kids). It is a special enrichment program and probably checked in the AAP file, so the evaluators know the demographics of the student.

[Anonymous]

Young Scholars doesn't answer poster's question though. Being minority doesn't necessarily put a child in Young Scholars. You have to be poor. There are white kids in Young Scholars and there are non-poor minority kids who are not in Young Scholars. To answer the question, minority students do not get some sort of preference to get into AAP. It's all based on the test scores, GBRS, work samples, and whatever else is in the file.

[Anonymous]

Is there any evidence that the young scholars program "discovers" hidden gifted children?