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Do you have any statistics to support your claim, i.e., where prepping has helped improved scores drastically?What percentage of students in AAP gets in because on prepping? 
As far as I know, there are no fix number of seats so anyone can get in as long as they meet the cut-off set by FCPS. 
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FCPS doesn't release any stats, so we just have logic, reasoning, and anecdata.  The existence of so many prep schools, prep materials online, and prep books on amazon would suggest that a lot of people are prepping.  Unless you believe that the CogAT is the one magical test for which prepping doesn't work, you would have to accept that prepping will improve scores somewhat.  Since the ceilings on the CogAT and NNAT are so low, a swing in just a few questions can be the difference between a mid 120s score and a mid 130s one.  At my kids' school, Level IV was presented as being for the top 2%, while Level III was for the rest of the kids in the top 10%.  Yet, 26 kids were accepted into Level IV, and there were only 5 Level IIIs left.  The math just doesn't add up.  [/quote]

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