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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hi parents!

I am absolutely new to this process, so please excuse my dumb question. My child is in the 2nd grade in a private school and we applied to AAP program. The child was found ineligible. I am reviewing this forum and I am struggling to understand why. The scores were over 140, HOPE was good, tried our best with work samples. I have a number of questions and would appreciate your feedback:

(1) Does your school district impact your chances? We are in Woodson HS pyramid and parents are very competitive here. I see on this forum that kids get in with much lower scores even in 120s but maybe from less competitive school districts? Is it even a thing?

(2) I already scheduled a WISC testing (hello, another $500!). I guess if the child scores over 99%, it makes sense to appeal?

(3) Does it impact our chances that we are coming from a private school? I feel like most people getting admitted are already in the school district?

(4) I understand this is level IV AAP. If we don’t get on appeal, are there any other programs the child can get in mid-year (like advanced math for example)? Or will it only be in 4th grade? Looking at curriculum for 3rd grade, I am afraid the child will be bored in math class in particular as that is what they studied in 2nd grade at school.

(5) Besides WISC, what else can we submit on appeal? We attached a lot of math and stem samples before. The child is also fluent in 3 languages, so we attached work samples. What would be helpful on appeal?

Thanks a lot for any feedback you can provide

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My kids were at one of the 2 AAP centers in the Woodson pyramid. I don't know for sure about the other center, but I wouldn't say ours was competitive in the same way that say, Langley feeder schools are. Most kids didn't do math enrichment (a handful did).

Advanced math at our center had TONS of push-in kids, most of whom were the same academically as the AAP kids. There was no difference, everyone got the same math, they were friends, it was fine.

Woodson itself is a great high school and you won't be able to tell who was in AAP and who wasn't when the kids get to AP classes. You just have to keep your kid challenged until then.

I will say - the math was enough to keep my kids engaged. Science, social studies, and language arts were super weak.[/quote]

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