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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Current Grade: 2nd grade
NNAT: 148
CoGAT: 139
In Pool (Yes/No): Yes
iReady Math Percentile: 99
iReady Reading Percentile: 86
HOPE (good/bad/etc, # of exceptional subjects): 1 almost always, 4 often, 4 sometimes, 2 rarely. and 5 exceptional subjects - 2e (anxious) student

Pyramid: Chantilly

In/not in: Not In

Submitting an appeal and getting WISC done. would appreciate any suggestions and thoughts on what additional info to include with appeal?
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Don't appeal. Your child is definitely smart and qualified.  The issue is the HOPE rating.  Anything in the sometimes and rarely will automatically DQ him/her.

The WISC would need to be 150+

[b]Most of these schools are looking for the 'MODEL' student.[/b]

While your child is smart, his/her current teacher did not give him/her a great hope rating and that really is the key.  The grades is just a filter to see who is eligible and the real deciding factor is whether your child is going to be problematic for the school/teacher.

I rather you not get your hopes up and go through all these efforts and spend $400 at GMU to do the WISC test to end up only in disappointment.[/quote]

Parent from a mid-SES pyramid here. If AAP kids are supposed to be the model student, someone forgot to tell the reviewers of all of my kids' cohorts in AAP. I can't tell you the number of times my oldest waited and waited in a group project for some slacker to do something, only to finally end up doing 90% of the project herself. Or the behavior issues (from students AND teachers) we had to address with administration. Or the teasing/bullying. Or the times my kid was the designated helper kid of another theoretically advanced academic student.

Yes the advanced math was useful. Yes the peer group was somewhat calmer than gen ed. But seriously - at least half these kids were far from model students and some of the teachers were the ones [i]nobody[/i] wanted their kid stuck with.[/quote]

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