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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does anyone have insight on applying in later elementary (5th/6th grade)?  Do they weigh SOL scores or something else more than CogAT at that point?  [/quote]

We have a bit of a unique situation due to our son's special circumstances. He has ADHD and some fairly serious visual processing issues (he's getting therapy for it) that made his NNAT and some subsets of the COGAT and WISC in 2nd grade very low, whereas other subsets were extremely high. Those high/low combo test scores kept him out of the pool in 2nd grade. 2nd grade teacher recommended we parent-refer, which we did, but he was not accepted into L-IV (never requested GBRS so don't know what that was). We did not pursue at the end of 3rd grade, but grades and SOLs were high. Found out during parent-teacher conferences in 4th grade that GBRS score at the end of 3rd grade was 14. We parent-referred this year during 4th grade (did not get additional testing done), and he was accepted for center L-IV for 5th grade. We aren't sure if we are going to send him. His confidence is really high where he is, and the lack of academic stress means he can focus on building social skills which are a challenge with the ADHD. On the other hand, we've been hearing all year how he is bored, and is not learning anything. Maybe he'd be bored at the L-IV, too, because to him school is just boring? Who knows.

Anyway, that was our experience.[/quote]

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