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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parents are allowed to prep their kids for the cogat. The school did some prep for the students, and prep materials are on the FCPS website. I havent heard of anyone spending 40+ hours on cogat test prep. That would also be a waste of time, much of that would be better spent prepping for iready tests and/or working with your kid to help them produce better writing work samples while they are in class (activities which will also better prepare them for school general in addition to increasing aap selection).

In other words, spending excessive time on the cogat is not a good way to "cheat" and would actually disadvantage their kids in the aap selection (and in school academics generally), so I highly doubt any parents are actually doing that. 
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I partially agree with you, but there is a lot of focus here on CogAT (and to a lesser extent, the NNAT) because they are used as the [u]universal screeners[/u] for the "in pool" designation.  And "holistic" or not, it's a pretty sure bet that being "in pool" gives kids an edge over kids who are only parent referred.

In school performance as perceived by the teachers (via the report cards and other testing* like iReady also included in the packet)  do matter.  *There is a lot of "paper" devoted to the VALLS since they dropped the reading iReady, but it's not clear how they are using that unless they are imputing percentiles (which are not available to the parents since it's only meant to detect risk of [i]future reading problems[/i]).  And the HOPE --the school's perception of the child's intellectual potential and social maturity-- matters too.  TBH, I'm not sure how HOPE is used. Some of the background material says it's only supposed to be used to be more [i]inclusive[/i], not to exclude, but if there are a fixed amount of AAP seats, that could be just talk.  And going forward, will FCPS continue to emphasize DEI, given it may result in the elimination of any federal funding? [/quote]

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