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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DD's scores: NNAT 136, COGAT Verbal 133, Quantitative 139, Nonverbal 125, Composite (VQN) 139. We did not get any notifications regarding being in-pool. I did parent referral but felt that work samples were not very strong. We are in a pretty competitive pyramid. I am prepared for either outcome but was curious if someone with experience had any feedback on these scores.[/quote]

Check out page 38 and 39 here: https://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/BPLQKV69B096/$file/FCPS%20final%20report%2005.05.20.pdf

The mean scores shown there for accepted students are so far [i]below[/i] what's regularly reported here as to be totally silly. DCUM is Lake Woebegone, where "all the children are above average." [/quote]

That is interesting! I also have hard time believing the report. Chatter in the neighborhood makes me think that the requirements for admission are incredibly high, though nobody is volunteering to share their scores. I completely understand, just don't really know how to interpret the scores. One parent told me that "everyone is in 99th percentile here." I suppose it could be true since the percentiles are calculated on the national level. Had a meeting with DD's classroom and AAP teachers and still completely in the dark about how she really is doing. They all gave very neutral and noncommittal answers. I do think my child is smart but I don't really have a point of reference, she is my oldest  [/quote]

In some very high income areas and/or areas with a lot of kids who prep hard, the scores to be “in pool” and have a packet prepared without parents requesting it can be quite high. But - let’s say you are at an established LLIV school. There are 100 2nd graders in your school. So 10 will be in pool. That’s not enough to fill out a class even if they all get into level IV AAP, which they may not, so now we get into the application process and get maybe 15 more kids. Oh but some amount of those kids (exact number based on past experience) will elect to go to the center vs. the local school. So now we pick up even more from the application process or have room for principal placed kids. And the parents of kids who have 120-ish CogAt but get into LIV based on a good application packet aren’t the ones out here bragging.

Also some schools don’t have LLIV and some kids don’t want to switch schools to go to the center (already made friends at school, they can walk to their assigned school vs. have to take a bus, parents don’t want to manage kids at 2 different elementary schools, before or after care issues …) so they just don’t put in a packet or stay with level III at the regular school. I know that’s the case at my kid’s school. They just started LLIV at his school, and the center is at a different school with a worse reputation overall and not even in the same pyramid. [/quote]

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