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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The most important thing is making sure the teacher adores your child. The teacher didn't like my kid so she didn't get in, despite test scores that were higher than her friends who did get into AAP.[/quote]

I’ll take Things that Didn’t Happen for $400, Alex. [/quote]

:roll: Have you looked at the HOPE form? It's purely subjective.[/quote]

LOL, you say that like it's a bad thing. Thank goodness we have it, else we'd just have academic achievement test scores in a vacuum, with no measure of relevant character attributes that are also critical to long-term academic and personal success like the ability to collaborate, think from multiple perspectives or creatively, focus deeply, and so on. There's nothing in the HOPE form about "did you personally like this student?" Most teachers put a lot of sincere effort into accurately filling it out and trying to consciously mitigate any such personal bias. I'm sure there are a few exceptions, as there are with anything, and sorry if you had a bad experience, but you don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. The HOPE form is one of the most critical and valuable evaluation tools we have.

FWIW, a student can take a standardized academic assessment and score several percentiles higher/lower depending on the day, their energy level, what happened at home that morning, if they're well-fed, and so on. We all do our best to set kids up to be ready on test day, but sometimes a kid just has a good/bad day and their scores better/worse than their true potential or achievement level. Despite this (and other) flaws with testing, we don't completely dismiss test scores just because they're imperfect, nor because test scores don't measure all the relevant dimensions needed to make an assessment of whether the AAP program is the right match for given student. They're still considered a big part of the picture, along with HOPE scores, work samples, parent questionnaire, and so on. But as a standalone, standardized academic assessment scores wouldn't tell you nearly enough to make any such well-informed decisions.[/quote]

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