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[quote=Anonymous][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]

I used the term "appeal" rather than "refer" simply to sum up the whole process; if, after referring, the child still isn't admitted, then the parents can appeal (as you said).  And [i]like you[/i], I have only personal experience to go on.  For instance, at our center school, I know personally of six children who were parent referred.  Of them, four were admitted and the other two appealed.  And were then admitted.  So, six out of six who were not in the initial pool were admitted.  It's not difficult to see how easy it is to get your child into AAP if you are a determined (read: pushy) parent.  [/quote]

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