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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks, my kid had a huge jump in the one she took today but her score was already 98th percentile in Fall, was just wondering if it might help.

What is the appeals process out of interest?[/quote]

98th percentile is too low. [/quote]

Well, gee, thanks, did you read the part about where I said she had a huge jump today? (I can spell that out for you if you’d like but it means way above 99th which is where she’s been at since K.) But thanks for your superior insight. Strangely kids I knew who got in last year had scored significantly below that but, whatever, I’ll just listen to you, wise one.[/quote]

Stop. I've been in your shoes, so I'm just telling you how it is. If you appeal with Winter scores, they might move your kid from reject to waitlist as a gesture, and then never take her off the waitlist. Now that MCPS has opened the magnets seats to ALL 5th graders, which is a good thing, kids need to have more than 99th percentile MAPs and very high entrance exam scores.

My 99th+ percentile kid dances rings around my 98th percentile kid. Most non-scientists don't understand this, but "slight" differences at the leading edge translate to very different IQ scores. A 99.1th percentile student is not nearly as highly functioning as a 99.9th percentile student, whereas there is virtually no functional difference between the 50.0 and 50.8 percentile.

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