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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hate the way the holistic approach is used to guess which kids may have prepped and keep them out of a program for which they're clearly smart enough.  If a kid scores over 140 on the tests, then the kid should automatically be admitted.  If the kid is in-pool on both NNAT and CogAT and is above grade level in reading and math, then the kid also is more than capable of handling AAP, even if the scores are a bit inflated from prepping.

The committee will never know who actually prepped, so they can only guess based on whether or not the teacher rated the kid highly.  Since prepping only leads to a 5-10 point increase, it kills me to see kids with high test scores and above grade level in everything get rejected due to the holistic approach.  Some of those kids probably didn't even prep.  The teacher just didn't like the kid.      [/quote]

Wait—so you personally know kids who were in pool with both tests and above level in math & reading AND not admitted? How many of these kids do you know for sure were not admitted? [/quote]

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