2021 AAP Admissions Thread

[Anonymous]

Another DP. 131 WISC isn’t below the in pool cutoff. WISC uses a standard deviation of 15. CogAT and NNAT have a standard deviation of 16. A 130 WISC is the same percentile rank as a 132 CogAT or NNAT.

[Anonymous]

OUT

1) 2ND GRADE
2) 154 NNAT
3) Appealing

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not in


-second grade
- NNAT 132 (in pool)
- parents referral
- gBRS- don’t know

Going to appeal.

Parents who mentioned that they submitted strong kids’ work. Please enlighten little more that what kind of work your kid did. Lego/maths sum/painting/writing

I submitted a parent referral packet before I learned my child was "in-pool". The work I submitted was closer to legos/painting than math sums. Things that show creativity and synthesis of information. I think his teacher submitted some math games (like Sudoku-type number puzzles). She sent them in pen pal letters last fall, and he would complete them and send them back. I don't know if these are the "right" work samples, but maybe they will give you some ideas. Good luck!!

[Anonymous]

Someone previously indicated "26 pages in and reading..." When I was finally able to log into the AAP site, it looks like a simple accept or decline. Aside from the email from my child's school's AART, is there another more detailed document coming from FCPS? Or maybe I'm not seeing it because of the website / load issues?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Someone previously indicated "26 pages in and reading..." When I was finally able to log into the AAP site, it looks like a simple accept or decline. Aside from the email from my child's school's AART, is there another more detailed document coming from FCPS? Or maybe I'm not seeing it because of the website / load issues?

Or maybe we were talking about these messages.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Someone previously indicated "26 pages in and reading..." When I was finally able to log into the AAP site, it looks like a simple accept or decline. Aside from the email from my child's school's AART, is there another more detailed document coming from FCPS? Or maybe I'm not seeing it because of the website / load issues?

Is this was you are referring to?
"26 pages in and we finally have an acceptance! Congrats!"
The poster meant 26 pages into this acceptance post on dcum
The acceptance is one simple accept or decline (with center/local level IV option if that's applicable)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think so many smart kids left for private that this is a very easy year to get into level IV.

No, I don't agree with that at all, not my experience this year.

[Anonymous]

Parent referral
In level IV
Grade 2
Nnat 117
Cog 122
Included multiple pieces of artwork

[Anonymous]

accepted or no?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Parent referral
In level IV
Grade 2
Nnat 117
Cog 122
Included multiple pieces of artwork

Congratulations! Would love to know what school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not in


-second grade
- NNAT 132 (in pool)
- parents referral
- gBRS- don’t know

Going to appeal.

Parents who mentioned that they submitted strong kids’ work. Please enlighten little more that what kind of work your kid did. Lego/maths sum/painting/writing

I submitted a parent referral packet before I learned my child was "in-pool". The work I submitted was closer to legos/painting than math sums. Things that show creativity and synthesis of information. I think his teacher submitted some math games (like Sudoku-type number puzzles). She sent them in pen pal letters last fall, and he would complete them and send them back. I don't know if these are the "right" work samples, but maybe they will give you some ideas. Good luck!!

Request a copy of the package from your school's AART (AAP resource teacher). It will include your kid's GBRS and the work samples the AART submitted for the central committee's review. Our AART had multiple work samples scanned and reduced so each page had actually 4-5 work samples. 2 pages of schoolwork (from Level II pullouts and in-classroom work) + 3 pages of parent-submitted writing. The school work was all done this year, so typed on the computer. The parent-submitted writing was all hand-written, with errors, so it was obviously my kid's work (and, frankly, less advanced than what the AART selected from the schoolwork). Only 2 math work samples, which was surprising as my kid is much stronger in math, but I guess it's harder this year to prove the kid did it all herself. Math samples were things that included a lot of writing to explain how she found the answers to the logic puzzles. Puzzles such as these: https://www.mathsisfun.com/puzzles/index.html.

[Anonymous]

Got the county email Not IN.

NNAT was mediocre 113, 84% was hoping cognat would make up a little

GBRS looks pretty positive

Work samples were a little weak (self referral), a few paintings, music theory proficiency cert. Did not find any lego stuff.

School has local Level 4, will it be possible that her school would have different decision to include her in local level 4?

And for appeals, what might be the our best bet. From the reading, I know the GMU test (pretty hefty price for a Non-IT/defense/lawyer family). The only concern is if she lost concentration during the test, that might blow the whole appeal process (seems like an one-time deal, good or wait a few more years)

She's pretty advanced in reading and math, some arts on the side too. Was hoping teacher's recommendation would make up the NNAT part..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Got the county email Not IN.

NNAT was mediocre 113, 84% was hoping cognat would make up a little

GBRS looks pretty positive

Work samples were a little weak (self referral), a few paintings, music theory proficiency cert. Did not find any lego stuff.

School has local Level 4, will it be possible that her school would have different decision to include her in local level 4?

And for appeals, what might be the our best bet. From the reading, I know the GMU test (pretty hefty price for a Non-IT/defense/lawyer family). The only concern is if she lost concentration during the test, that might blow the whole appeal process (seems like an one-time deal, good or wait a few more years)

She's pretty advanced in reading and math, some arts on the side too. Was hoping teacher's recommendation would make up the NNAT part..

This may be an unpopular opinion, but I would go with Level III this year. Talk to the next classroom teacher and AART to let them know you plan to re-apply for grade 4, and ask them to help you understand the areas where she can improve. Use Level III samples in your application next year. This is what I did and DS was accepted for next year. (Not saying you shouldn't appeal this year if you want to, but my advice would be to go through Level III and then push up.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Got the county email Not IN.

NNAT was mediocre 113, 84% was hoping cognat would make up a little

GBRS looks pretty positive

Work samples were a little weak (self referral), a few paintings, music theory proficiency cert. Did not find any lego stuff.

School has local Level 4, will it be possible that her school would have different decision to include her in local level 4?

And for appeals, what might be the our best bet. From the reading, I know the GMU test (pretty hefty price for a Non-IT/defense/lawyer family). The only concern is if she lost concentration during the test, that might blow the whole appeal process (seems like an one-time deal, good or wait a few more years)

She's pretty advanced in reading and math, some arts on the side too. Was hoping teacher's recommendation would make up the NNAT part..

This may be an unpopular opinion, but I would go with Level III this year. Talk to the next classroom teacher and AART to let them know you plan to re-apply for grade 4, and ask them to help you understand the areas where she can improve. Use Level III samples in your application next year. This is what I did and DS was accepted for next year. (Not saying you shouldn't appeal this year if you want to, but my advice would be to go through Level III and then push up.)

How would we get her into level 3? Would we need to apply for it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Got the county email Not IN.

NNAT was mediocre 113, 84% was hoping cognat would make up a little

GBRS looks pretty positive

Work samples were a little weak (self referral), a few paintings, music theory proficiency cert. Did not find any lego stuff.

School has local Level 4, will it be possible that her school would have different decision to include her in local level 4?

And for appeals, what might be the our best bet. From the reading, I know the GMU test (pretty hefty price for a Non-IT/defense/lawyer family). The only concern is if she lost concentration during the test, that might blow the whole appeal process (seems like an one-time deal, good or wait a few more years)

She's pretty advanced in reading and math, some arts on the side too. Was hoping teacher's recommendation would make up the NNAT part..

This may be an unpopular opinion, but I would go with Level III this year. Talk to the next classroom teacher and AART to let them know you plan to re-apply for grade 4, and ask them to help you understand the areas where she can improve. Use Level III samples in your application next year. This is what I did and DS was accepted for next year. (Not saying you shouldn't appeal this year if you want to, but my advice would be to go through Level III and then push up.)

How would we get her into level 3? Would we need to apply for it?

Not PP, but my kid (whom we did not refer for Level IV) was principal-placed into Level III.