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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]100% the difference comes down to hope scores. That and pyramid.
I have heard the hope score is very highly weighted. That is part of what makes this so frustrating. We are at a center school in Langley pyramid and it is well known that if you want your kid in AAP you try to request a specific 2nd grade teacher because she will go to bat and put together an excellent packet for your kid.[/quote]
That's one of the things that makes the entire process BS.  The 2nd grade teacher's ability to recognize giftedness, ability to put together strong materials, biases, and/or favoritism shouldn't be the most important factor.   The "gifted traits" the 2nd grade teacher will understand are the ones displayed by bright, but not gifted, motivated, cooperative kids.  Meanwhile, some truly gifted kids are going to be bored out of their minds or displaying other negative traits that the 2nd grade teacher might interpret as a lack of motivation or curiosity.

For what AAP is, it's beyond ludicrous to deny any kid who is 95th percentile + on iready reading and math.  Likewise, it's absurd to deny any kid who has a 140+ CogAT, since it wouldn't be possible to prep a non-AAP caliber kid to that range.[/quote]

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