2021 AAP Admissions Thread
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Anonymous
My child was admitted. His report card is mostly 3s, with some 4s, and even some 2s. |
Anonymous
There is no standard meaning for all 4s on a report card. My kids have often had mostly 3s on the first quarter report cards, despite getting perfect scores on every assessment. Then, the scores would magically increase throughout the year and be all 4s in the final report card. Some teachers like to lowball the 1Q and 2Q grades, so they can "show progress." |
Anonymous
Yes, thanks!! |
Anonymous
I don't agree with that either. Wow... |
Anonymous
It's a fact that the county lost 9,000 students. Do you think these were low ses kids? Nope. Do you think they are all homeschooled? Nope. The applications for private schools were tripled in some cases. If there are less in the pool competing for AAP, then it will be easier for those in the pool to get in. |
Anonymous
They were mostly kindergartners. Sure, some 2nd and 3rd graders may have left for private or homeschool, but not many. |
Anonymous
And what makes you think that the ones that left fcps to go to private schools are the smart ones????? |
Anonymous
I live in a decent income neighborhood in Vienna (most people making 200k or more) and I don't know a single kid in my children's 2nd or 5th grade classes that left for private. I do know that our next door neighbor did the opposite and switched from private to public despite the fact that the private was in person and public was remote learning. I'm sure some people have switched to private but there's just no way it had a substantial impact on AAP admissions. Wishful thinking from a private school parent, perhaps |
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Anonymous
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I think people should keep in mind that 2E kids test low when they are younger before they figure out how to accommodate themselves. In
My 2E kid scored in the 122 on the NNAT in 1st grade. We found out what the problem was summer after 1st grade and started getting medical services. Much better on Cogat. Same 2E Kid aced SAT at age 13. I feel for people this year who’s kids can’t even take the Cogat this year. NNAT is all pictures still correct? Kids can have vision problems, even common vision problems, and the kid doesn’t know it because at 7 that’s all they know. Not hard to slip through the cracks when in some areas vision testing for preschoolers assumes they can’t read at all and is a giant picture of a rabbit on the wall. A smart kid could squint hard for one second, see some fuzzy ears and eeek out “rabbit”...but in reality have bad vision. Probably a bunch of other “ways to mess up an NNAT” scenarios as well. I don’t know what the solution is for a secure second test in a Covid year though...but FCPS needs one. |
Anonymous
DP. I thought they did a survey on this and the vast majority of the kids in FCPS who went private/homeschool due to the pandemic were either kindergarten who probably redshirted or students with moderate to severe special needs whose parents did not feel distance learning would be useful. |
Anonymous
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That’s ridiculous.
Hundreds of kids with severe SN disappeared this school year, but they certainly aren’t enrolled in private schools. They just aren’t in school at all. |
Anonymous
| It’s humorous that you AAP parents keep fighting the fact that the pool of applicants was smaller this year. Cant you just be grateful your kid got in? Why do you need to believe this was a highly competitive year? It wasn’t. |
Anonymous
Ok lady! You do not need to tell people how to feel. Competitive year or not is not for you to decide. |
Anonymous
Ok, I’ll stop. |