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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]23:01, I'm not sure what your point is.  The Cogat is a well-recognized test; if there are a lot of people scoring in the 99th percentile it is not because standards are lower.

If you look at this chart, anything from 135-160 is the 99%ile on the Cogat.

https://www.nsd.org/Page/28102[/quote]

Sounds like this is what's tripping up the understanding of all this. When everyone posts that their kids are 99th percentile with perfect grades, we're not seeing the difference between the 136 kids and the 150 kids with perfect grades. Presumably the selection committee did see those raw scores. I wonder whether they'd tell you if you called to ask?  (Note, though, that anything in the 98th and 99th percentile is considered gifted.)

We haven't gotten a letter yet, but DD's friend from their HGC class had 99%/straight As and got a rejection letter. She's zoned for a MS with 40ish% FARMS and a Great Schools 5.

[b]DD is zoned for TPMS[/b], had a couple of Bs in first quarter, tends to test relatively well but not spectacularly, but she does show a sky-high Lexile level on the MAP testing. So I'm a little skeptical of the idea that the acceptances will come today, because she definitely doesn't sound like a better candidate than a lot of the rejected kids, unless her raw COGAT score was somehow through the roof. I'd be shocked if she was accepted, after hearing all this. But it's her bad luck that she had to apply the first year they didn't take teacher recommendations, because hers said she'd be perfect for the program at Eastern.[/quote]

There are 25 seats reserved in the magnet program for local TPMS students. So there is a very high probability - compared to the friends who are not zoned for TPMS - your DD will be accepted.[/quote]

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