How many of your children applying to pre-k THIS year actually scored a fiq of 99%??

[Anonymous]

I am curious how many students applying to pre-k this year actually got a 99% on their fiq? i keep hearing that EVERYONE in nw dc gets a 99% so I want to see if it is really true. No, I am not bragging, I am just trying to get a serious gage of where we stand in all of us this? Thanks!

[Anonymous]

only preK, or K too? (i ask bc sometimes the children are about the same age as normed for the test)

[Anonymous]

I have been very curious myself. This survey will be most useful if lots of applicant parents respond. Our DC has a 99.8 percentile on the FSIQ. No idea whether this makes the child a stand-out or relatively normal in this applicant pool.

[Anonymous]

we are only 75%

[Anonymous]

PP here: We are a Pre-K applicant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:we are only 75%

overall fiq? that actually i believe is still high average which is great. that's why i am puzzled that all of these people are getting 99%.

[Anonymous]

The scores reflect the preparation.
It would be more helpful to look at the scores of these kids at age 10 or so. I bet the scores will be lower.

[Anonymous]

My dsgot 83%. He got into a good school. He is in 1st grade in the top reading group, reading better than the 99% kids. We did ZERO ZIPPO preparation for the IQ test. But his school readiness score was in the 99%ile or something like that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My dsgot 83%. He got into a good school. He is in 1st grade in the top reading group, reading better than the 99% kids. We did ZERO ZIPPO preparation for the IQ test. But his school readiness score was in the 99%ile or something like that.

what is the school readiness score and who gives that test? in the playdate? how did you find out the score? upon admission?

[Anonymous]

To make this question really useful, it would be great to stay away from the questions of "how did the 99 percentile kids get there - preparation, parental lying etc". What some of us are hoping for is just a bunch of responses that would indicate the relative scores of today's pool of applicants to pre-K. How it happened seems to be the topic of several other threads. At the same time, I am somewhat interested in learning about this school readiness score and how one actually understands what this is.

[Anonymous]

DCUM is just a small subset of those applying to schools, so responses here are not really going to indicate the relative scores of today's pool of applicants. OP (and perhaps others) think knowing how many kids scored an FSIQ of 99% will provide some indication of where his/her DC stands. Not so. The WPPSI score is only part of the application. No one but the ADs know the importance of the WPPSI relative to other components of the application process, but the fact that some kids who score in the mid-80's are getting accepted and some kids who score 99% are getting waitlisted or rejected says that the WPPSI is not the tool to use to gauge your DC's chances of getting admitted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My dsgot 83%. He got into a good school. He is in 1st grade in the top reading group, reading better than the 99% kids. We did ZERO ZIPPO preparation for the IQ test. But his school readiness score was in the 99%ile or something like that.

what is the school readiness score and who gives that test? in the playdate? how did you find out the score? upon admission?

After we got the low IQ scores, we panicked and ran to the tester, she suggested the school readiness test, which was fine. She said that similar questions would be asked in one way or another in the play dates.

BTW, our tester was in Baltimore, she is not familiar with the craziness around here WRT private schools. For that reason, I believe that his score was more in line with reality. That is , she did not bloat the score to make the parents happy, and as has been suggested on DCUM, in order to get more referrals.

[Anonymous]

WTH??? my kindergartener made it into school without an fiq? what is it? what did my DC miss?

[Anonymous]

I know this opens up any number of existential questions, but I'm hoping someone can explain the meaning of the full scale score. How is it possible that one can have a full scale score of 99, but then a discrepancy between verbal and performance of several percentage points? What's more important, the full scale, or the discrepancy, assuming this stuff means anything at all?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know this opens up any number of existential questions, but I'm hoping someone can explain the meaning of the full scale score. How is it possible that one can have a full scale score of 99, but then a discrepancy between verbal and performance of several percentage points? What's more important, the full scale, or the discrepancy, assuming this stuff means anything at all?

I don't know, but maybe you can call the person you paid to administer the test, and ask her? Seems like that should be included in the price of the test -- an explanation of what it means....