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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]New acronym for AAP seeing how many low NNAT's followed by significantly higher CoGat's have been accepted this year.  Not to rain on anyone's parade or dampen anyone's proud moment.  Just advice for anyone who wants their child in the program next year - prep a little and get a WISC if needed.  Also, stop calling it GT - few of our kids in this program (including DC) are truly gifted.  I feel bad that those bright kids who aren't prepped or whose parents don't persevere don't get the same academic opportunities.[/quote]

I think OP was just frustrated about the whole fairness issue associated with prepping.  Speaking from personal experience, I always thought my child was very bright and assumed that, like when I was growing up, his teachers would decide whether he went to the AAP program.  I know I should have been more informed about the process, but I  wasn't sure about the AAP program because I was such a geek as a child, I missed out on a lot of the other social aspects of school.  I know there are a lot of well balanced really bright kids, I just wasn't one of them and so had a biased/likely flawed view.  Anyway, I didn't start focusing on the whole AAP idea until after he'd taken the NNAT and CogAT and so had no idea about prepping.  When I got online to get more info and saw all the alleged prepping, I definitely thought it wasn't "fair."  I really don't think prepping is going to make an average child score off the charts, but I do feel that prepping can give some advantage.  I think  OP and everyone else upset about the fairness issue will have to just realize that this is now the reality.  I read that a principal at a Fairfax County school actually mentioned a prepping site at a meeting prior to administration of the CogAT.  If that is really the case, prepping will become so wide spread that you will be doing your child a huge disservice to not prep him/her.        [/quote]

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