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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Central Committee selection involves several hundred people looking through 6000+ files over the course of 1-2 weeks.  Given the sheer number of people involved, some fraction of the individual panels will tend to be either too lenient or too harsh or too biased in some way.  With the sheer number of files they're handling, mistakes will be made.  Almost all of the kids who should have been admitted will get in on appeals or when they apply again in 3rd grade.  [/quote]

Oh that means if you are lucky you may get lenient group to review your file and you will get in in 2nd grade. The unlucky ones, parents have to go through all the effort to appeal and apply again in 3rd grade. The process sucks and there is luck factor involved.[/quote]

Most kids are accepted in the first round of admission. While there are some tables that are harder to get through and some tables that are easier, The vast majority of kids accepted into AAP are accepted in the first round. There is less luck then you think.

Most of the parents who are upset that their kid was not admitted tend to be kids who had high test scores and lower GBRSs. Normally the saltiness is because the Teacher didn’t see that their kid was deserving of high GBRSs because of the test scores.

Occasionally there are parents who are upset because their kid had high test scores and high GBRSs and didn’t get in and those baffle most people on the board. That is when I wonder if the person got a crappy table with a few people who don’t like AAP and reject pretty much everyone, or if the comments on the GBRSs didn’t reflect the GBRSs that were awarded. I would say that most of those kids seem to get in on appeal.

The process is not perfect but it seems to work reasonably well for thousands of kids.  [/quote]

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