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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Unless a parent writes "please don't accept my child, he doesn't want it and we don't want it and he will cause lots of problems and he is not gifted at all, he cheated on the test" I have a hard time thinking the selection committee places any weight on the parent questionnaire, which is extremely SES biased.  Is this just a way to let parent's feel like they did something?[/quote]

To your question at the end, yes, I think that is exactly what it is. I mean really, how much stock can they place in the fact that mom or dad thinks little Larla is a genius!  [/quote]

Oh absolutely this is the case. People with kids with scores in pool are often denied services and parents who curate submissions of their children with much lower scores are accepted. It's crazy and I laugh every time someone on this board claims that this isn't a completely biased process.[/quote]

I think the questionnaire is bogus. Obviously the parents are going to present the best picture possible. But what’s wrong with taking a holistic approach to the process? If the committee is putting a lot of of focus on GBRS and the writing samples that’s a good thing because it’s observing a child over a period of time as opposed to a test taken for 45 minutes in one day. Also, the Cogat is so oddly scored where one question can be a difference between making the pool.

I don’t think the committee looks at the questionnaire and samples from home at all. I think they focus on the GBRS, Cogat and writing samples and each is given equal importance. That’s what the AART at our school tells us and they keep emphasizing scores make up on one small part of the application. The kids with in pool scores are denied because of poor GBRS and bad writing samples. I don’t see anything biased about that. [/quote]

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