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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow!  It just seems so subjective.  Look at the other thread.  There are kids with scores WAY below 139 that got in on the first round on a parent referral because the teacher and AART wrote a good GBRS.  So a kid with a perfect score on one of the tests and a 132 on the WISC wouldn't make it?  Bizarre to me.  That kid is objectively in the top 2% where as the referral kid is in the top because of the "subjective" opinion of the teacher and the AART.  It seems like a process in which the schools can really play favorites.[/quote]

Original poster, do get letters of recommendation from your child's teachers. Subjective? Sure. But test scores alone do not indicate how well a child really will do with the GT curriculum. In Fairfax parents are obsessed with test scores to the point of insanity. And good recommendations won't help if the child's scores clearly are far outside the required minimum. But thank goodness we have "subjective" teachers there to give a human perspective on kids' abilities to do GT work and thrive (or not) in centers.[/quote]

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