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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, for starters, the bar is much lower than it used to be.  In GT, there was a composite score that had to be reached, making it much more difficult and selective.  Nowadays, the appeal process is such that [b]if your child does not make it into the pool (initial cut), parents can simply appeal and almost always get child into AAP.[/b]  It is no longer a program for just gifted kids, who actually make up a tiny percentage of kids admitted; however, every parent who has a child in AAP says that their child is gifted even if they've just barely made the cutoff.  The program is a ridiculous waste of time and money (testing, selection committees, center schools, busing to center schools, etc.) that benefits a very large group of FCPS kids but does nothing for the other large group of kids who remain in Gen Ed. [/quote]

Not true. And you're showing your general ignorance of the process as well: If your child doesn't make the pool, you refer--you don't appeal. If your child is still denied when the decisions are made in the spring, then you can appeal.

Also, depending on the year, sometimes a composite score has been needed. Other times, it's been just one score on a subtest.

Please show me your stats for "almost always." I'm going on personal referral experience, for one, in a case which included a score that missed the cutoff by a couple points. I think the GBRS was the factor, but I didn't bother to check it. My plan was always that if the referral didn't work, I would not appeal. I don't pretend to know exactly the kind of kid they're looking for.[/quote]

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