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[quote=Anonymous]My daughter just took the ISEE for high school admissions and is pretty sure she bombed. She has an A- average in all honors classes, but when she took the Middle level ISEE last year her scores were 
Verbal reasoning 7
Reading comprehension 7
Quantitative reasoning 4
Mathematics achievement 3
and was not accepted at a nearby private school that isn't supposed to be that hard to get into. So now I'm freaking out about high school. 
What's crazy is that she consistently gets better grades in math than English, but she also consistently does better on the verbal section of the ISEE and does not do well on the math section.
Maybe she's just dumb?
(I just wrote that for that one crank out there who's going to say that--beat you to it. Now you'll have to come up with something else.) 
She's already had two neuropsych evaluations--no learning disability of any kind. I actually WISH she had a learning disability because then we could treat that and she could go to a special school just for that. 
One neuropsych said mild anxiety and mild inattentiveness, the other, a couple years later, said Generalized Anxiety Disorder and ADHD/PI. 
So maybe if I had given her ADHD meds she would have done better today?
Ugh. She's in the top 25% for height and the bottom 10% for weight so I haven't wanted to go the stimulant route. Also, all of her teachers and her therapist have all said that they don't feel she needs medication.
I came from a family where everyone got near perfect scores on standardized tests, except me. I do pretty well (1300 SAT) just not GREAT. I overthink things--things that stand out as obvious answers to other people look complex to me. If that's the case with my daughter, does medication help with that?[/quote]

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