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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How much is his WISC score?  [/quote]
His WISC score is 129 last year and 124 the year before.[/quote]

When my kids were in 2nd grade, the cutoff was 132. [/quote]

Thanks! That's good to know. Sounds like they are looking for the 99% percent on WISC. I thought the 132 was for the Cogat test. [/quote]
That's not true, though.  They're not looking for any particular test score, and there is no WISC score that will stand on its own for admissions.  They're holistically looking at the child to determine placement.  For the WISC, they are looking at the subscores.  They're also looking at any achievement scores.  And they're looking the work samples as well as the teacher's impressions and the parent questionnaire.

Did you submit any achievement tests, like iready or MAP scores?  Did you submit work samples?  Plenty of 97th percentile kids and lower are admitted into AAP, but they have iready/MAP scores that corroborate the ability/IQ scores, they have strong work samples, and they have the support of their teachers.  You're applying to a more affluent school, so realistically, there will be a decent number of 90th percentile and higher kids in the gen ed classroom.  Your kid is likely indistinguishable from the bottom half of the kids in the AAP classroom and the top 20% of the kids in the gen ed classroom at your zoned school.  The committee members are going to be irritated that you seem to think your kid is too good for gen ed when the kid is very borderline for their zoned school.

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It is true and not true at the same time. The vast majority of kids in AAP will have test scores in the 99th percentile. There are cases where kids have lower scores but those are a smaller percentage of kids and even those tend to be in the 95th percentile or higher.  So yes, there are kids who score in the high 120’s but they are rare or they are kids who were in Young Scholars or at Title 1 schools. The 97th percentile kids are coming from lower SES schools.

As for subscores, you are not likely to have a subscore that is in the 99th percentile and end up with a total score of 129, that would mean a different subscore is at or sub 129.

There is a known bias against private school kids moving into AAP. FCPS schools are not good enough for you unless you are in the AAP program? That is not appreciated. The committee doesn’t trust what teachers at private schools are saying in their letters or reports for a variety of reasons. [/quote]

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