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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]12:13 here again.

What the selection committee looks for is a consistent ensemble of facts. So if scores are good, yet the teacher says the student can't stay on task and some grades are bad, the student might not be accepted. If scores are right at the median of accepted students, grades are mostly Ps and teachers recommendations are good, that student might get accepted. If all the scores are below the median of accepted students, good grades and glowing teachers recs will be a harder sell.
You see my point? [b]They don't want students they might have to worry about. [/b]They want the whole package.
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There are certainly students they might have to (and actually do) worry about at my child's HGC. It's the Center for the Highly Gifted, not the Center for Kids With High Test Scores, Whom Teachers Like. [/quote]

I completely understand what you're saying, but the selection committee is trying to minimize the ACADEMIC risks of that happening. They are not necessarily made aware of behavioral problems or family issues during the application process. And unfortunately it does turn into a teacher popularity contest in so far as grades and scores are good enough. Any selection system will always have its kinks anyway.

And to answer another PP, there are no significant behavioral problems this year at Chevy Chase HGC. The OP was specifically asking about that school. I have no inside knowledge about other HGCs.

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