If your child score 99.9% ile on WPPSI, who tested him/her?

[Anonymous]

No, it's called critical thinking. Use your brain.
No conspiracy. It's dollars and sense.

[Anonymous]

If WPSSI is useless why require this $400 test for a 4-year-old?

Do we need a $400 test to assess the average 4-year-old? I don't think so.

This is a multi-million dollar annual industry.

It's about all-American entrepreneurship. Wall Street comes to Big 3 Street.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, it's called critical thinking. Use your brain.
No conspiracy. It's dollars and sense.

It's also unethical. If you used your brain you would realize that these testers would be in violation of their code of professional ethics were they to manipulate scores in cahoots with schools. Do you have any evidence that these testers do not sit on boards of the schools that we mention. There would be an evident conflict of interest.

Do you have any proof that testers sit on boards or admissions committees?

You sound paranoid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, it's called critical thinking. Use your brain.
No conspiracy. It's dollars and sense.

It's also unethical. If you used your brain you would realize that these testers would be in violation of their code of professional ethics were they to manipulate scores in cahoots with schools.

Do you have any proof that testers sit on boards or admissions committees? There would be an evident conflict of interest.

You sound paranoid.

Sorry for the weird typos--don't know what happened here. See the above for the grammatically corrected version.

[Anonymous]

No paranoia here. You sound like Alice in Wonderland. Professionals clearly never violate their code of professional ethics.
Can you explain the epidemic of "geniuses" in the area D.C. area?

[Anonymous]

Shocking that someone so smart can't get her kid into school without cheating.

[Anonymous]

We have a family tester. She will not give 99.9 necessarily, but we know for sure 95 up is guaranteed. Of course I can not say the name, but I can tell this is pretty common. There is no anxiety over this stupid test scores.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have a family tester. She will not give 99.9 necessarily, but we know for sure 95 up is guaranteed. Of course I can not say the name, but I can tell this is pretty common. There is no anxiety over this stupid test scores.

Okay.....

[Anonymous]

Shocking that someone so smart can't get her kid into school without cheating.

Since my child got 99.9 percentile on the bogus test and turned down 2 spots a what you folk consider Big 3 I can speak freely about this farcical test. By the way, my child did the smarter thing and went to a magnet school. Given the low admission bar I do not anticipate any barriers to entry should he decide to apply in future. Unfortunately, these schools have very little to offer him until perhaps high school.

Now you see what useless and erroneous speculation gets you...pie in the face.

Did your child turn down a Big 3?

[Anonymous]

We have a family tester. She will not give 99.9 necessarily, but we know for sure 95 up is guaranteed. Of course I can not say the name, but I can tell this is pretty common. There is no anxiety over this stupid test scores.

These schools need applicants. The more the merrier.
Testers can't discourage them...or else they will not stay on the preferred list. Is this a concept too difficult for you to fathom or comprehend?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If WPSSI is useless why require this $400 test for a 4-year-old?

Do we need a $400 test to assess the average 4-year-old? I don't think so.

This is a multi-million dollar annual industry.

It's about all-American entrepreneurship. Wall Street comes to Big 3 Street.

Who says the WPPSI is useless?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Has it occurred to you that some schools recommend testers who serve on their boards and or admission committees? Have you ever heard of conflict of interest? The seats in our area private schools do need to be filled to pay the high salaries of the executive administration.

[b]Has it occurred to you, in a down year, some kids score well (by recommended testers) in order to fill seats in certain private schools? Explains the epidemic of 99.9 percentiles for at best ... average kids!

At 400K a pop for a test and on a school rolladex...what a "you scratch my back I scratch yours" Ponzi scheme. Conflict of interest laden racket. No rocket science here...easily comprehensible to a 6th grader at a Big 3s.

Seems to me that if a school had a down year, they would simply admit students with lower scores. Why would they need to have testers inflate scores for them? Schools are free to set whatever admission requirements they want - and change it at will.

[Anonymous]

It is useless as an admission test requirement for all 4 - 7 year-olds applying to area private schools. It is only useful in selective cases. It would be akin to requiring all 4 to 7 year-olds to get total body CT scans to pick up occasional pathology. That so many candidates score > 99 percentile makes the case of its uselessness as a requirement for admission.

[Anonymous]

Seems to me that if a school had a down year, they would simply admit students with lower scores. Why would they need to have testers inflate scores for them? Schools are free to set whatever admission requirements they want - and change it at will.

Would that approach jeopardize the testers' educational testing business in the long run?

If Colleges followed the same approach with SAT/ACT they would have nothing to brag about in the annual US News and Report College Sweepstakes.

[Anonymous]

Are the testers kicking back to the schools?