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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Enrichment is enrichment, it will improve grades and test scores, just like introducing academic topics at home will. Both practices are reasonably normal in many families.

Buying a book or enrolling in a class to study for a specific test is prep. SAT prep was new when I was in HS and many people thought it was problematic. Over time it has become normalized. Prepping kids for intelligence exams is not likely to be normalized and the CoGAT and NNAT is a proxy for an intelligence exams. They have diminished in their importance in AAP selection because a large enough group are prepping g for them. Classes are openly advertised and books are sold at HMART and other stores.

Plenty of kids with scores in the 130’s and strong iReady scores are accepted. People don’t believe scores in the 140’s and iReadys in the 90th-95th percentile, [b]the scores don’t match and point to prep.[/b] [/quote]

The CogAT and iready are measuring different things.  They aren't designed to "match."  This has been explained ad nauseam to you.  There are so many reasons that a kid might have a gifted level CogAT, a lower iready, and not be a prepper.  I would expect this profile from gifted kids who: have undiagnosed ADHD or dyslexia, have unenriched home lives, were sick or had an off day for iready, clicked through iready quickly to get to the games, or just who had asynchronous development in their skills (common for gifted kids).

Also, you're assuming that it's even possible to prep a non-AAP caliber kid up to a 140+ CogAT.  If it is possible to train the kid to earn a 140+ CogAT, then the kid is showing strong abilities to learn, which in turn means the kid will have no problems with AAP.  [/quote]

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