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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are the potential changes to this program the reason kids with 99%iles are being rejected? Has anyone heard how they plan to implement said changes?[/quote]

The only way to get a real picture of what is happening is to know the test scores/GBRS/comments  for the kids from the different centers and level IV schools. I understand that there is not suppose to be a set number if kid for AAP but we all know that is BS. Centers have a set number of seats. They are not able to add on classrooms at a Center to accomodate kids over the number of seats that they already have. So a Center has to have a number of seats for the kids who are at the Center as their base school plus room for kids that are feed into the Center, that means kids from 1-2 other schools.

So if a center has 2 third grade classes, it can take 60 AAP kids. I am sure that FCPS has a good idea about the number of kids that stay at their base for Level IV there or language or magnate program.

If I understand the process, there are tables with five reviewers who blind review the applications. Three yeses and you are acepted.

I suspect, and this is pure conjecture, that they take that first round and put the kids into a pile for each center. If there are more accepts then seats for a Center, they break out the kids based on base school and look at if the base school has level IV or not. they work out the percentge that they expect to move to the Center and stay at the base schools. If they numbers are too high based on those projections, they conduct a second review. In that secod review they might look at some of the higher sores and see if they match up with the GBRS and comments, if they don’t, they might remove kids based on suspicion of prepping or kids that were on the border line with test scores.

Again, based on conjecture, if there is a Center that does not end up with a large enough pool of kids, they might go through the not acepted for a particular center or school and add kids, explaining some of the lower scores that get in.

There is no way that FCPS does not take the size of a class when making decisions since kids are bussed to their Center or Base School and no where else. [/quote]

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