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[quote=Anonymous]OP asked about range of IQ scores in admitted students to the HGC.  There is no way to know this except anecdotally when other parents reveal their child's privately administered IQ testing results.

Other OPs have pointed out that admission to HGC depends on a specially-administered test that MCPS gives every January to all students who have applied to the HGC.  Unfortunately, MCPS never publicly provides full data about the results of this test (how many took it what the results were on a populational basis, what the cut scores or range of scores for admitted students were, etc.  MCPS traditionally writes an admissions decision letter to the parents of student who applied to the HGC.  This letter usually states the applicant's scores on the test and the median score of admitted students.

There has never been any information about how the raw scores provided translate to nationally normed percentiles nor what the range of admitted students scores were.  These two key pieces of data would tell a LOT about what percentile of the MCPS population is being served by these centers (top 1%?  top 2-3%?).  It would also allow outsiders to judge how accurate the testing is in identifying the gifted who are appropriately served by this program, because outsiders could then compare test results on this HGC test to other tests like IQ tests.  It is likely that this testing under identifies poor, minority and special ed students.  But, without the data, that is hard to prove.

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