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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There seems to be a misconception/obsession about "in pool" on this board lately.

All it means is that your kid had a top 10% score at your specific school and thus is automatically considered for AAP.

It is NOT an automatic admission, some in pool kids do get rejected presumably if the work samples and HOPE/GBRS from the teacher is lackluster.

Additionally, approximately half of the students ultimately accepted into AAP were NOT in pool (parent referred). [/quote]

Got it, but just curious about how the in-pool cutoffs vary, if they actually do. Hard to know unless people actually state what the cutoffs are at their school (which are not posted to my knowledge but that individual people would know from direct experience)[/quote]

OK, but the point was that it doesn't really matter since an in pool kid can be rejected and an out of pool kid can be accepted. It's really just meant to capture the top kids at each school whose parents don't refer for whatever reason, usually lack of awareness about the program in the first place. Anyone with enough knowledge to ask this question is likely to parent refer regardless.[/quote]

I know, but it does improve the odds to be in pool, no? [/quote]

Of course it's important (and SHOULD be the primary determinant of eligibility.  If being in pool didn't matter, parents would be indifferent about the NNAT and CogAT scores.[/quote]

What's more important is the actual score. I highly doubt a score that is in pool at one school and not at another makes any measurable difference in outcome. I don't even think the packets are marked as such. [/quote]

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