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-Kids who legitimately earn a 96th or 97th percentile score now look much worse in comparison to their peers who would have earned lower scores but prepped their way into higher scores.  So, they are more likely to be rejected, even though they technically are smarter and better candidates than the preppers who got in.

-If disproportionately many 90-98th percentile kids prep their way to higher scores and get in, then the few 90-98th percentile kids who don't get in end up becoming outliers and having little peer group in gen ed.

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I have never posted against prepping but I'll join the bandwagon. These are the reasons in my personal experience. I didn't prep because we were told not to. My kids scored between 94-97 in all tests, above grade level in reading, receiving above grade level in math, etc. Not accepted.

I didn't appeal because it was explained to me that AAP is for "truly gifted" kids in the 98th percentile. That seems fair until you find out that tons of people prep and plenty get in with lower much lower scores than mine. My kids no longer get above grade level instruction and I truly feel that they are no longer with their academic peers because all the other bright but not profoundly gifted kids are in AAP.

I honestly don't care whether my kids re in AAP or Gen Ed but I do want them with their peers and being taught at their level. The problem here is with the system![/quote]

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