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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Targeted, no. That's not what happened here. Many, many more students were screened. But something is going on that is curious. Because even with many more kids screened you'd still figure that more kids within a cohort of children that have already scored very high scores on the Cogat would be admitted. I have no doubt that the kids admitted are all very bright kids who will do very well, as bright as the kids in the HGC's. I'm not suggesting they aren't. But there may be reasons they were chosen over some of the kids in the HGC's and it might not be, always, because of higher test scores. Or, it could be that with so many children screened the differences came down to very small differences in scores, essentially meaningless differences when it comes down to it. It's just very hard to say exactly the algorithms that were used and why things shook out the way they did. [/quote]

Except most of the 4000 kids tested this time still would have had to self select two years ago for HGC testing, meaning we don't know how the current HGC kids would compare to the other 3500 if there has been universal testing then.  For all we know, there easily could have been tons of kids who should have been in HGCs but weren't because of the application process. [/quote]

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