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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]GBRS is the most important factor.  Then CogAT Q.  Median CogAT V score for admitted kids is around 119.  [/quote]

This is interesting given common wisdom on DCUM, which suggests that kids must score at least in the upper 120s to have a real shot at admission.  I'd bet the DCUM advice is pretty accurate for wealthy schools (representing the vast majority of DCUM posters) but substantially less so for higher-FARMs schools.  For example, a student who scores a 115 on the CogAT verbal in a high-FARMs school where the average CogAT verbal score is only 95, arguably has a much greater need for differentiation than a student who scores 115 in a wealthy school where the average is 110.  [/quote]

We live in a "non-TJ-mania" area and our center seems to be one of the better ones, leading me to think that our center population has a number of in-pool admits instead of parent-referred admits with lower stats.

Those mean NNAT and Cogat scores were surprising.  They did confirm all the complaints about how kids are on grade level or below.[/quote]

Don't assume parent referrals are actually low averages--we parent-referred our child who didn't take the NNAT because we weren't in the district and she scored 1 point below the cut-off on the Cogat.  But she had a 145 WISC.[/quote]

Same here.  We parent referred with a 149 WISC. CogAT was 131.  Child is 2E and had a low GBRS. Teacher later confided the principal and AART lowered it. Work samples submitted my the school were really bad.  Happy to report DC got in on appeal and is going great.[/quote]

There is really no data here to support that parent referrals or appeal get in kids who shouldn’t be there. Maybe that is worth looking into but this data doesn’t delve into that enough to draw any conclusions. And really, I see no reason a kid who gets a legitimate high WISC should not be in, it’s a better measure than NNAT or COGAT. I doubt those are the kids “watering down” AAP.[/quote]

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