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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think my son is gifted, but he has incredible executive function skills and loves to work hard. He is a rising second grader and said school was too boring last year and he hopes it is harder next year. Over the summer, he wanted to learn 2nd and 3rd grade math, so we're currently on multiplication and division. 
I really feel like he would benefit from being in the AAP program, though his NNAT score was just around 120. What are the chances that a child that is not actually gifted, but interested in working hard and learning, can be placed in the AAP program? My older daughter has learning disabilities, so this is all new to me. 
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Dear Op, You can actually work on making your son obedient and train him to learn to follow teacher instructions to the T. If he is identified as a favorite by the teacher and the AART, then your GBRS will be very high. They do not measure gifted abilities You can then practice Cogat paper folding section and eventually go over other areas. A very high GBRS and a high Cogat will get your child selected. The only point I would like to make you aware is that the time you spend teaching your child is way more valuable in making him successful than relying on public school AART, AAP or GenEd teachers who manage 26 children per class.[/quote]

Being obedient and following teacher instructions to the t are not going to result in a high GBRS.  If anything, doing those things will make a child look as though he has not a speck of creativity and only knows how to do what he is told. 
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Not true.  Most of the AAP kids at my dd's school are really good at working hard.[/quote]

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