GT/AAP Appeals

[Anonymous]

Thanks! Solid info in that report. Check out Table 13 on page 11, showing the statistics on appeal (with and without the WISC).

[Anonymous]

Wow . . . what do you make of this report? Anyone care to extrapolate and "read the crystal ball?"

[Anonymous]

Wow. Lots of people who can't handle rejection and are trying to do anything they can to "beat" the system.

Accept reality and move on!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

LOL. The statement above is what keeps the people on this thread going. What happens when your child gets a college rejection letter? Are you going to submit an appeal, too, as well as handicap your chances?

You seem didn't have a college education.

Oh, the irony.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow. Lots of people who can't handle rejection and are trying to do anything they can to "beat" the system.

Accept reality and move on!

Sorry FCPS AAP Central Selection Committe doesn't agree with you.
Accept reality and move on!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow . . . what do you make of this report? Anyone care to extrapolate and "read the crystal ball?"

To me it looks like about 90% of the appeals submitted with test scores were found eligible but that percentage drastically dropped w/o test scores. But if you look at the year before the % is not true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow . . . what do you make of this report? Anyone care to extrapolate and "read the crystal ball?"

To me it looks like about 90% of the appeals submitted with test scores were found eligible but that percentage drastically dropped w/o test scores. But if you look at the year before the % is not true.

I am guessing that it largely because only those who have favorable test scores submit them.

If the kid tanks the WISC, it wouldn't make any sense to include the scores in the appeal package.

[Anonymous]

Obviously most appealing kids take WISC.
If the score is high, they submit it and likely to be selected.
If not high, either give up or just try it without new score.
Hence that statistics.

[Anonymous]

The WISC is self selecting. I told myself if DC's WISC was less than 125 we would not appeal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The WISC is self selecting. I told myself if DC's WISC was less than 125 we would not appeal.

I thought somewhere on this forum I read that 135 is minimum

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The WISC is self selecting. I told myself if DC's WISC was less than 125 we would not appeal.

I thought somewhere on this forum I read that 135 is minimum

I can tell you from experience, 135 is not the minimum.

[Anonymous]

Do tell! What score got your child in? Also, I think it's a sliding scale with the GBRS. Maybe you need a 135 if the GBRS is very low?

[Anonymous]

The threshold for test scores (mainly wisc) varies from child to child depending on the strength of the original file. The committee is looking for "compelling" (thats the key word here) new information to overrule the original decision. So a child who was close, can become eligible by with a lower - albeit, still very good - wisc score, where as a child who was a little weaker in their presentation will need a higher score. Again, your key word is "Compelling."

[Anonymous]

I'm looking at the center report from above, and it seems to me that including a WISC score tremendously increased your odds of a successful appeal in all of the reported years (and yes, I agree that only those who obtained favorable WISC scores were likely to submit them). So I get the "compelling" nomenclature, but in reality it seems like having a decent WISC in the appeal file means you have a 70-90 chance of prevailing on appeal. At least, that's what I'm gleaning from the report.

[Anonymous]

it would be interesting to compile the data; cogat, nnat, gbrs, wisc for all the appeals that were accepted. that will give this forum its own statistics, assuming the no. participating is high enough for credibale stats. can all the parents, who receive acceptance, post this info?