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I understand that 1.5% rule seems counter-intuitive based on attending school. I think the purpose is to capture "under the radar" gifted 8th grade students in a very low-performing MS (and probably low-performing ES), with parents who have no idea what AAP/TJ is and likely have zero involvement with school matters, but whose counselors now have reason to believe they realistically stand a chance at TJ. The amount of students that would be in this situation is rather small, hence the 1.5%.[/quote]

This argument would only make sense when the non AAP center has a high FARMS rate and the AAP center is much wealthier.  That often is not the case.  Just as an example, most of the AAP kids zoned to Thoreau would attend the AAP center at Luther Jackson.  The gen ed population of Thoreau is generally wealthier than the LJ gen ed population.  By letting Thoreau zoned kids compete for the Luther Jackson TJ spots, it's just making it easier for wealthier not particularly gifted gen ed kids from Thoreau to get in and nearly impossible for poorer gen ed kids from LJ to get in.

I'm also skeptical that there are enough stealth gifted kids who somehow didn't test highly enough on CogAT or NNAT to get into AAP, didn't stand out enough for a teacher to refer them to AAP in any of their ES years, and wouldn't stand out enough in a system that largely rewards GPA and an essay to be picked on their own merits, and thus need a special pool of non-AAP kids from their non-AAP MS to stand out enough to be picked for TJ.[/quote]

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