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You realize that the COGAT and NNAT are real measures of cognitive ability, right?
All kids can think outside the box but lateral thinking is correlated to general cognitive ability so the kids with high COGAT/NNAT scores will generally have higher lateral thinking ability.  
You sound like you think you have somehow made some fatal error in your child's education.  Talk to your AART and ask for their help and advice, there are no "points of no return."  If your kid is actually gifted, the AART has no interest in seeing your kid bored and disengaged.  [/quote]

It seems like what this poster was responding to was the arrogance of "obvious that the general education population can not handle the accelerated pace of an accelerated math or advanced English class." and follow-on comments.  If you've been following this forum AT ALL you'll know that plenty of VERY high scoring kids don't get into AAP.  Not because they're not bright (or arguably brighter than the kids that do get in), but because some other portion of their application wasn't in favor with the admissions board.[/quote]

That wasn't obvious to me because their post read like a complaint that their kid didn't get in and now they have "banal worksheets"  I was just pointing out that there was more than one on-ramp to aap.
I also don't like that there is so much subjectivity to aap process.  An eloquent parent can help write a compelling application, an influential parent can get favorable teacher recommendations, and a wealthy parent can simply opt out for private school.  IMHO, the COGAT and NNAT scores should be sufficient to determine who gets in as a initial matter and then we should make allowances for special cases.

What this person is highlighting is the difficulty that the children of non-english speaking parents, less educated parents, immigrant parents, etc have in a process like this.  Holistic admissions processes are more complex and is another way to direct advantages to people who are plugged in.[/quote]

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