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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NNAT 127
CogAT 128
GBRS Didn't ask

Not admitted in 20151

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Will you appeal?[/quote]

I wasn't planning to, but this thread is making me wonder. My kid is happy at the current school so I'm tempted to leave it alone although I'm curious about the rationale. My child isn't in ESOL but we are a bilingual household and that was on the forms, too.[/quote]

If you think that your child needs advanced studies, then you should. This is not a gt program, but an advanced one. You can always get out. Per ESOL, if when you enrolled your child in school you mentioned that he/she was in a bilingual or foreign language household, then it will permanently be in his/her record forever. Based on that the child will be assessed for ESOL services, and does not have to receive them. I don't know how the foreign language factors in though. 
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Thanks for the info. I'm wondering if I need to bother with a WISC to appeal? I guess DH and I have a lot to discuss later tonight; this is very different from school where he grew up![/quote]

They say that you need to appeal with additional information. I don't have experience with the appeal, but from what I've read around the WISC is the way to go. It seems you need to do some research on who administers it.

You can also ask for a retest for either the NNAT or the CogAT. That is if you want to go through the process again. I've read around that most appeals get approved.[/quote]

The NNAT and CogAT are group tests and there will be no tests administered between now and the appeals deadline.  You don't have to have the WISC, but that's the test they consider most reliable.  If you do the WISC and the scores aren't "high enough," appeal with additional work samples or recommendation letters.  As long as you submit something new, they'll consider the appeal.  What are the CogAT subscores?  That might explain why your DC wasn't found eligible.[/quote]

PP here. I'm looking at the Profile Narrative the county sent-- under "Standard Age Score" it has Verbal as 118, Quantitative as 126, and Nonverbal as 129. I looked at the NNAT report and there were no subscores, just a percentile rank (95th). [/quote]

I think the GBRS must have been pretty average and that plus all the test scores being under the cutoffs didn't  give the committee any factors that were pro-admission. [/quote]

PP again. I suspect you're right. I forgot to mention, my kid has consistently gotten 4s in math, science, writing, and most other subjects. Occasionally there will be a 3 in music or art but it's pretty rare. I may ask the AART for the GBRS because I'm confused about all of this, and because my friend's kid up the street got in with lower scores :/. [/quote]

The kid up the street may have had a better overall package. He/she could have had higher GBRS, great work samples, recommendation letters. Maybe even submitted a WISC. You can't really compare kids as if they're apples to apples. [/quote]

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