how common is a 15 or 16 GBRS?

[Anonymous]

title says it all

[Anonymous]

My DD got a 16 last year. I heard only from others it was rare but I know it happens because she got one. How rare or how often it occurs, no clue. Comments were very, very extensive. The GBRS was lengthy and filled with detailed examples that were specific and covered months of time throughout the school year from things that seemed to have occurred from Sept. through Jan.

[Anonymous]

I have no idea how rare it is, but I have 2 sons. One got a 16, one got a 15.

[Anonymous]

A lot of the kids who were expected to get in got 15 or 16.

[Anonymous]

I think it depends on the school. I teach music in FCPS, and my AART said they're rare. She said there were 2 in our whole school. I asked because my own son with borderline test scores had a 16. He was not admitted with a 16. I will say, both schools have a significant high-need population.

[Anonymous]

Hard to say. My one child got a 15, my other got a 12. Both got into the program. The one with a 15 did pretty poorly on the tests, the one with a 12 did great on the tests. They've both performed about the same in the AAP classroom environment, which is quite well.

[Anonymous]

No one here can answer your question, OP. I know my child had a 16 and I got the sense from the AART that it was a rare event.

[Anonymous]

Our AART also said it was rare, but both of my kids got 16 three years apart...so I'm not sure it's quite as rare as she seems to think.

[Anonymous]

It seems that everybody's kids got 16 here, LOL!

[Anonymous]

Duh, that is who would respond to this post. Selection bias.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it depends on the school. I teach music in FCPS, and my AART said they're rare. She said there were 2 in our whole school. I asked because my own son with borderline test scores had a 16. He was not admitted with a 16. I will say, both schools have a significant high-need population.

I am surprised that he didn't get in with a 16. Really surprised.

[Anonymous]

My DD also got a 16 last year with very detailed examples as well. She also top out both tests so we weren't surprised by the high GBRS. Just one year into AAP but she loves it and has made many more friends this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DD also got a 16 last year with very detailed examples as well. She also top out both tests so we weren't surprised by the high GBRS. Just one year into AAP but she loves it and has made many more friends this year.

Thanks for bragging.

[Anonymous]

My kid had a 15 but was not in the pool by a long shot. Her nnat and cogat scores were very average (80th to 95th percentile with one subset in the 60s). We had a wisc done and her score was 138. She is doing very well in the program. No idea why her standardized tests came in so low. But glad that her teacher gave her a good write up and the committee took a chance on the whole child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid had a 15 but was not in the pool by a long shot. Her nnat and cogat scores were very average (80th to 95th percentile with one subset in the 60s). We had a wisc done and her score was 138. She is doing very well in the program. No idea why her standardized tests came in so low. But glad that her teacher gave her a good write up and the committee took a chance on the whole child.

Since when is "80th to 95th percentile with one subset in the 60s" AVERAGE, for goodness sake? Isn't around the 50th percentile "average" by definition?