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I agree with you.  But at this point, prepping is pretty widespread, the county has no way to prevent it, and the payoff (getting into AAP) can be huge.  If the county truly doesn't want people to prep, it needs to come up with a better system.  I'll admit that I kind of feel like an idiot for not prepping my child, who ended up being rejected with a just under cutoff CogAT score and a 15 GBRS (admitted on appeal, though).  One more correct answer would have led to an in-pool score and presumably not having to deal with the appeals process.  I'm not saying it's right to prep, but I can sympathize with the people who choose to do so in light of the way the current process works. [/quote]

Did you not prep your child because you had high morale, didn't have time/money or simply weren't aware of the prep school existence?[/quote]

PP here, and I didn't prep because I thought that if my child belonged in the program, she should have been able to qualify on her own.  I didn't realize beforehand how broken and arbitrary the whole admission process is, nor did I realize that her school strongly viewed her as "needing AAP"  I also didn't realize how low the ceilings are on those tests, such that one careless mistake can make a huge difference in the result.

If anything, I wish I had worked with her more on general test taking strategies.  Seven year olds still tend to make a lot of impulsive or careless mistakes, and you really can't get many wrong before you fall below the pool cutoff.  My DD is decidedly above average in AAP, so my initial decision to trust the committee was clearly wrong.

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