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[quote=Anonymous]Sam2, thanks for the thoughtful post. I don't have any answers, but I do have some more thoughts. These are based on experience with kids in MoCo magnets.

1. A lot of the dismissing of WPPSI results seems based on the fact these are administered to 4-year-olds, where the results depend so much on the kid's mood that day, or even whether she had too much sugar for breakfast.
2.  The screening process screens for both intelligence and hard work. I think some of the answer may actually be in this combination of the two.  The test administered in December tests IQ, but the grades and teacher recs will show hard workers too. The magnet people also say they look for "passion" whatever that means, but it probably means a willingness to work hard at home. Anyway, some kids who may not grasp every point immediately are still likely to be the sort of kids who just work longer at it, and not the type of kids to drop out.
3) The work is hard. DH and I both went through college calculus, but we stopped being able to help DC in 7th grade algebra.
4) This is a self-selected group of kids who want to be in the magnet.  Magnet horror stories are traded in every 5th and 8th grade. And for the kids whose parents made them apply, these parents aren't going to let them drop out.
5) The magnets take the top 1-2% in the county, vs. top privates which take maybe the top 10-15%. They have different missions, obviously. I don't know what the IQ standard deviations are, but it seems like a kid in the 98th would be at least somewhere in the 90 percents.

Not sure how useful some or all of this is, although I do like my point #2.[/quote]

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