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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In my experience, acceptance is very uneven. (we did 10 years of it altogether) many kids who are not really academic enough are accepted, and struggle and cry through the whole process, and others are not accepted who could have done it with ease. In some schools, military is automatic in, in other PTA is. They love to accept one from a family and reject another. This was done to keep kids in their home schools. With the new policy of not using centers, they may not do this. They put up a lot of mystery. If you feel your child qualifies, appeal. Many, many win on appeal and their kids do fine.[/quote]

I am part of a large military community. All but one of the military kids I know who applied as transfer students from out of state were accepted.  ALL of those kids were qualified and enrolled in gifted programs in other states, and in some cases multiple states.  ALL of those kids had testing scores that placed them in at least 98%; most of them had test scores in the 99% range.

None of those kids were greenlighted into AAP just because they were military.  Ffx does not have time to play that kind of petty game, and to imply that military kids only get in because they are military is just wrong.

Most of the military kids are actually enrolled at their base schools. Several military families have only one kid in AAP and the rest are in gen ed.  The military kids who are enrolled in AAP are there because that is where they need to be.  They are not there because they are military, but in spite of it.  Most of them have attended 3-5 elementary schools in as many years, and have had an inconsistent education, but are still exceptionally bright kids who were placed in AAP for all the right reasons, none of which have anything to do with being military.[/quote]

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