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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OMG. Do you even know who “the board” is? It’s 200 teachers that volunteer and get a sub day and spend the whole day at Willow Oaks reading packets. They rotate through over the course of 5 days. I’m an ESOL teacher and I’ve done it every year for 5 years. We aren’t specially trained and we look at the whole package and not just those test scores. We also are told to disregard parent work submitted because it’s often done by them or with a lot of help. We never look at the identifying info. Honestly after reading several hundred, no one cares if it’s a boy or girl, age, grade, etc. it’s draining. You can surmise all you want about the system but I’m here to tell you it’s a complete crapshoot. It has to get 4 yes or 4 no to be completed. Sometimes 3 people say yes, one says no, and then it goes to another reader. It’s a botched system. After completing the packet, your best chance it just to pray. All depends on who reads it and if they are feeling the love. There are also no limited spots (the only time that may come into play is during appeals since classes have been formed by then). Basically, have good scores and make sure the teacher likes your kid for good GBRS. Other than that pray and wait. 🙄[/quote]

If this is true, then the school work samples are probably the single most important thing.  Untrained people are unlikely to appreciate the significance of test scores or gifted traits.  The main thing that will leap out at them is neatly done work samples with nice handwriting, good spelling, and pretty artwork.  Sloppy work is likely to stick out in a negative way.  [/quote]

What happens to the packages after the 4 'yes' marks?  What happens if only a handful of Hispanic or African American students get a 4?  What happens if a center school ends up with 2 additional classes because of the reviewers marked too many applicants for 'yes'?  The above seems unreasonable given all the ways that it can go wrong and not work out.  What the ESOL teacher is probably not aware of is what happens after the packages leave her lap.  Like in most other competitive admissions processes, there is probably an executive committee that meets to massage the number of entrants into the program in terms of race, capacity and other factors whether it be for the better or worse for any given individual.    [/quote]

They essentially go through a "verification" phase. For example, why was as high scorer not accepted? or an especially low one accepted?[/quote]

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