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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PS-  I bet it kills you OP to know that my kid had a 216 selection index on his sophomore PSAT, taken in a small group setting with extended time. That would have qualified him as National Merit Commended Scholar.  If he improves by about 3 questions this year, with accommodations, he will be a NMSF.

And you can suck it up.  This kid is brilliant, and works harder than his very hard working peers for the same or lower grades.[/quote]

Brilliant, but low processing speed.  There's no way he should get NMSF.  He can be recognized in other ways for his brilliance.  [/quote]

Low processing speed is a classic ADHD marker.   And whether he gets NMSF or not is not  call to make.  And looking at the psychoeducational testing, and with TJ’s recommendation, the college board decided to go be him time and a half on the PSAT, SAT and APs. So he will take his extended time and be recognized as national merit commended or NMSF.  And if you think ADHD kids working at a super high academic level at TJ have it easy, you are way off base.  He has the aptitude to succeed at TJ, and he has the aptitude to succeed at any college in the country. And I could GAF whether you approve or not. Because it is not your call. Maybe you should worry less about my kid, and Focus on your own children. [/quote]

Sorry, but if he's getting extended time he doesn't measure up. It will catch up with him when he can't compete without benefits.[/quote]

My kid with graduate with a 4.2-4.3 from TJ.  He will have used extended time for major math tests and major physics tests only.  I don’t fully understand, but it has been explained to me that his mind moves faster in advanced math than he can process his thoughts and get them written down.  It’s like his brain has one foot on the gas and one foot on the brake.  So he has to intentionally slow himself down in math or hiss brain is 3 steps ahead of his pencil, and he makes careless errors and takes shortcuts to keep up.  Without extended time, he will get the mathematical concept  right, but the answer wrong, because careless errors.  And his scores on standardized math tests would not be an accurate reflection of his grasp of the material, or his actual aptitude.

History, English, writing assignments, bio, tech, science labs, tech labs— all done under the same time constraints as everyone else.  All projects due under the same time constraints and with the same due dates. All schoolwork graded under the same standards. And all the extended time in the world on the SAT or APs would do him no good at all if he did not understand the underlying material.  But he does, so he will be NMSF commended even if his score drops, and NMSF if it goes up at all.

Because he is 2e, we have always been thoughtful about his education. TJ has been a wonderful fit.  He has worked with an EF coach while at TJ, and is ahead of many boys his age in terms of being able to organize and complete an enormous volume of work. And I strongly suspect her will attend a SLAC with a strong physical sciences program for college. And, like everyone else, he will choose a career path that plays to his strengths, which are many— reading, writing, grasping the “big picture”, having incredible artistic talent and doing interdisciplinary work, a particular area of science, and even math, as long as his career does not rely on a combo of mathematical accuracy and speed.  For example, he is not looking at engineering.

And yet somehow this is not measuring up?  Really? On what planet is top half of the class at TJ with impressive extracurriculars and, published research “not measuring up?[/quote]

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