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There are 120 kids per grade in the AAP center.  You don't think it's plausible that 5 of them are 99.9th percentile?  Nope.  My 6th grader is not in algebra and will take it in 7th or 8th.  I'm just not at all bothered by the handful of kids who are in algebra.  They're all much brighter in math than my kid, so they would be bored if they were in the same prealgebra class.  [/quote]

Your math skills are rusty. No I don’t think it’s possible. Maybe 1 or 2. [/quote]

One of the requirements for acceleration is a 145 CogAT, which is 99.9th percentile.  Part of the reason I think it's no big deal is that back in the day, the same kids would have been skipped ahead a grade or two.  Grade skipping is out of vogue right now, so these kids are instead just skipping in one subject.

For what it's worth, there are grade skipped kids at the AAP center.  Is it somehow intrinsically worse for an on-time 6th grader to take Algebra than it is for a grade skipped kid to take it in 7th?  Both kids would be 11-12 years old.  [/quote]

Cogat isnt worth the paper it’s printed on as far as teasing real intelligence above the 2nd deviation. But I have no doubt there are parents using it as some kind of meaningful indicator of their child’s need for acceleration.  If your kid has an FSIQ above 155 get back to me. [/quote]

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