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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you heavily prepped your kid so that they would get a strong CoGat score, does that mean they REALLY belong in AAP?  Doesn't that defeat the original purpose of AAP?[/quote]

If you heavily prepped your kid so that they would get a strong SAT score, does that mean they REALLY belong in college?

If you heavily prepped your kid so that they would get a strong math final exam score, does that mean they REALLY deserve an A?

If you heavily prepped yourself so you do well on a sales presentation, does that mean you REALLY deserve the sale? 
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Yes, you're clever.  But you're not right.

Fairfax used to use a real IQ test for admission to the GT program.  But the district is too large to do that now so they use an IQ proxy test.

A real IQ test can be prepped, to some extent. But then it's invalid.

If you want to prep your DC for the Cogat, go ahead.  Then the score's only value is for admission to AAP and is otherwise meaningless, provides no information to you or anyone else about your child.  And also, you've contributed to the educational race to nowhere and increase in pressure and stress.  [/quote]

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