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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m not angry my kid is not in AAP. I am disappointed in FCPS. But yes, feel free to attempt to discredit the substance of my accurate characterization of the GBRS with a personal attack suggesting I need therapy.  It reveals you do not have a substantive rebuttal. Thank you. [/quote]

The holistic approach isn't based entirely on the GBRS, either.  The committee is simply looking for something beyond a single score on a test that is very easily prepped.  A high score + a good work sample would be enough.   Or a high score + some compelling letter of recommendation, parent questionnaire, significant award, or whatever.  Yes the process is imperfect, and some small number of truly gifted kids are rejected first round who ought not to be.  Those kids all eventually get in on appeals or get in the next year.  If the kid has one high test score, but year after year fails to in any way impress the teachers or produce any signs at all of giftedness, it's more likely that the high test score is the aberration than it is that the kid is a stealth genius.

Referring to Mensa makes you look a bit desperate.  No one takes Mensa seriously, and Mensa membership is pretty meaningless.  DYS, triple nine, and many other gifted societies don't accept CogAT scores, because the CogAT is a weak test used only because it's cheap.  [/quote]

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