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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[b] plenty get in with lower much lower scores than mine[/b]. 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]

This (bold) has nothing to with the prep, their parents tried (referral/appeal) and child got in where as you chose not to appeal! You can not judge other child simply based on some scores. A child with low score is not automatically in the pool,i.e. they are parent referred. They must have submitted solid samples that puts them above your child portfolio. They must have had high GBRS.

What was GBRS for your child? Was it low? Cogat score alone is not sufficient to guarantee admission in the program.

Prepping will not change score from 100 to 145. If child is near cut-off and prepping helps pass them that threshold, it should not dis-qualify that child! That child is already smart just needed some guidance.  GBRS plays important role and it can not be cheated. Admission committee (6-7 people) wants to see whole package.

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You are right that I chose not to appeal, and I regret that, but it was largely because I believed what I was reading on the FCPS sites and I what I was hearing in the big general meeting. And the characterization of AAP as a place for highly gifted kids, quite simply, not true. I do not think my kids are highly gifted... they are above average bright like almost everyone in FCPS AAP.

I don't know what my kids' GBRS was. i didn't ask. I do know that it is subjective, though.

I don't think anyone has claimed that prepping will get a kid from 100 to 145. It suspect it can get a kid from 128 to 133 though. Had I known how wide-spread prepping was, had I known how many much being in pool matters, had I known how many people appeal for the just under the pool scores... yes, I would have done things differently. [/quote]

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