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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To answer the OP's question...  (without debating AAP itself!) Yes, absolutely.  It definitely couldn't hurt, especially as it sounds like you are set on getting in.  If the scores are lower, you just don't submit them.  As another poster said, also retake the COGAT for free, which a lot of kids do.  Request from your AART now, so it's on the calendar.  It's a new application each year with a new appeal allowed each year, which is not clearly communicated.  My daughter's test scores were VERY high, and she only got in for 3rd grade on appeal with work samples, so search for the work sample recs here and spend some real time on those between now and Dec deadline. You can talk to the AART and teacher and have them send home copies of the LIII work, which you can always redo/ add at home with additional time.  If nothing else, you'll know what's being collected/ submitted and where your student might have gaps to fill.[/quote]

OP here - I don't think we need to retake the COGAT, the scores on both NNAT and COGAT match up with what other people have posted their children got into AAP with. I really think it was the HOPE and I truly didn't understand the HOPE ratings based on feedback we've received from teachers in the past. All I can imagine is my child was new to the school and the HOPE was submitted so early that the teacher just didn't know the children well at all yet, which also meant that the work samples submitted from the school were pretty awful (the ones we submitted from home were better, but your'e right, I need to do some research into what's considered more acceptable).[/quote]

What were iready scores? Was your child marked advanced in reading/math on the packet submitted by the school? You said earlier that scores were over the 132 threshold that used to mean something (it doesn’t mean as much anymore w all the test prepping, especially if you’re at a high SES school) but were the sub-scores all over 132? At our school, 132 is considered average.

You need better work samples and if there are areas of weakness in cogat, iready, and/or on Hope rating, you need samples to demonstrate that there is strength in those areas.

Your child didn’t get a bad hope rating and poor work samples bc they’re new to the school. The entire class is new to the teacher when the school year starts. My childrens’ 2nd grade teachers had no idea what kind of student they were just bc they were roaming the halls in K and 1. I agree, there are plenty of arguments to be made that the teachers don’t know the students and their work well enough by the time packets are due, but that applies to the entire class, not just students new to the school that year. 
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There aren't any schools in FCPS where a "132 is considered average."  Stop being ridiculous.  [/quote]

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