Submitting Neuropsych testing in admission process

[Anonymous]

I know this is an unusual circumstance, but what do you do if your child has had the full neuropsych testing within a year of applying to private schools and the results are that there's no diagnosis? We have a child who we thought might have some ADD, so we had him tested, and the results were just a very smart kid, with no particular significant results. Some anxiety, which accounted for the symptoms we were seeing, but that seems to have resolved by itself since then anyway. But they do the WISC as part of the testing, and now we're in the position of 1) not being able to do the WISC again because it's within one year of the last time, and 2) the report we have includes ALL the neuropsych testing. So it's just different from what everyone else has -- the nice little WISC report and write up. Ours is from Hopkins, not one of the private testers so it's just much more clinical. And we're a little worried that the fact that we did the whole testing may make the school think there's an issue that isn't there. (We chose to do the testing ourselves, it wasn't recommended by the child's school or anything, so it wouldn't come up otherwise.)
It seems like things are so competitive that anything can disqualify a kid these days.

[Anonymous]

Many schools let you submit SSAT or ISEE or WISC. If you don't want to submit the entire neuropsych report, you can always submit the SSAT or ISEE instead.

[Anonymous]

Contact the tester and see if they will write you a condensed report that only addresses the part the admissions testing would address. They may charge you a fee, but I don't see why they couldn't.

[Anonymous]

Can't do the sat because only second grade. Can ask Hopkins for the truncated report but I don't know if they do that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can't do the sat because only second grade. Can ask Hopkins for the truncated report but I don't know if they do that.

I was told by our tester (not Hopkins) that it was possible to include just the educational portions, but it would have to include a disclaimer that it was part of a larger neuropsych. We decided that any admissions office would see that and ask for the whole thing, so we just submitted the whole thing.

[Anonymous]

I am a neuropsychologist and would be happy to do that for a family. Just contact your clinician, it would take less then 30 minutes to create a "WISC TEST RESULTS" and it would be an individual clinicians decision on whether or not to include the note if it was part of a larger eval.......

[Anonymous]

Our psychologist said she would write a condensed report if needed because all they ask for is a WISC. So other students aren't always submitting additional testing even if they found something.

[Anonymous]

I agree, see if you can get a WISC-only report; you have no obligation to report analyses that weren't asked for, and which didn't turn up a diagnosis.

[Anonymous]

Do you have the tester's private email or number at KKI?Getting a WISC only report from Hopkins maybe challenging.

[Anonymous]

Since the neuropsych was done at Hopkins, I would just submit the entire report bc otherwise the school may think you are hiding something.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Since the neuropsych was done at Hopkins, I would just submit the entire report bc otherwise the school may think you are hiding something.

Yes, I think we have to submit the entire report, because even if the tester does the truncated one, I think it would be strange to come from KKI and they'd think we were hiding something. Has anyone had this experience? Do you think that it hinders he application? I know that logically it shouldn't. In some ways, they should look MORE favorably on it (if they aren't friendly to kids with learning challenges -- which don't get me started on that anyway) because the kid's been thoroughly evaluated and found to not have an issue. But somehow I doubt that's how it really works out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Since the neuropsych was done at Hopkins, I would just submit the entire report bc otherwise the school may think you are hiding something.

Yes, I think we have to submit the entire report, because even if the tester does the truncated one, I think it would be strange to come from KKI and they'd think we were hiding something. Has anyone had this experience? Do you think that it hinders he application? I know that logically it shouldn't. In some ways, they should look MORE favorably on it (if they aren't friendly to kids with learning challenges -- which don't get me started on that anyway) because the kid's been thoroughly evaluated and found to not have an issue. But somehow I doubt that's how it really works out.

we submitted everything. i look at it this way: if they can't handle my kid, i want to know that before we put my kid there. how horrible would it be to place your kid in a school that may have issues handling their specific needs. but, i am a lay the cards out on the table kind of person and don't sugarcoat, so YMMV.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Since the neuropsych was done at Hopkins, I would just submit the entire report bc otherwise the school may think you are hiding something.

Yes, I think we have to submit the entire report, because even if the tester does the truncated one, I think it would be strange to come from KKI and they'd think we were hiding something. Has anyone had this experience? Do you think that it hinders he application? I know that logically it shouldn't. In some ways, they should look MORE favorably on it (if they aren't friendly to kids with learning challenges -- which don't get me started on that anyway) because the kid's been thoroughly evaluated and found to not have an issue. But somehow I doubt that's how it really works out.

we submitted everything. i look at it this way: if they can't handle my kid, i want to know that before we put my kid there. how horrible would it be to place your kid in a school that may have issues handling their specific needs. but, i am a lay the cards out on the table kind of person and don't sugarcoat, so YMMV.

I tend to agree, it's just that in this case the result was that the kid doesn't have any particular needs other than just neurotypical stuff. If there were a diagnosis, or an issue flagged or something, then I'd *definitely* submit everything, because I totally agree with you -- I don't want to end up somewhere that can't handle it. But this is a weird situation where that's not the case, but we have this big testing report.

[Anonymous]

I think applying for third grade? which is generally not an entry yr will be more of a factor in admissions than submitting the entire report that does not show any issues.

Don't over think it and good luck!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think applying for third grade? which is generally not an entry yr will be more of a factor in admissions than submitting the entire report that does not show any issues.

Don't over think it and good luck!

It is an entry year at some schools.