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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly, does it matter?  Was anyone on this board not going to submit a parent referral?  My oldest kid wasn’t in pool and got in first round, my middle kid was in pool but we needed to appeal for him to get in.  So for my family this pool business is not meaningful.[/quote]

This board is a fraction of the number of parents of kids who are in AAP.  Anyone on this board?  What sort of a measure is that?  [/quote]

The people who are most affected, those whose kids have CogATs above 132 and were not in pool, will apply for their child if they care about AAP. The ones who do not apply are probably comfortable with the education their kid is going to get in the Gen Ed classroom.

If they were raising the in-pool score at scores that have been underrepresented in AAP, you would have a very different situation because the parents at those schools don't know about AAP at all or don't know that they can apply for AAP.

The majority of the kids considered for AAP are done so through parent referrals and not through test scores as it is. This really only increases the number of referrals and it makes the parents of higher SES schools apply.

So yeah, I suspect that the parents most affected by this change in a negative manner are the parents who would know about the program and are in a good place to choose to apply anyway.

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