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[quote=Anonymous]I do the parent questionnaire. I do think they mainly do it to have parents feel like they had the opportunity to add something while they largely don’t care what the parent thinks about their own kid - the test scores and teacher comments are more important. 
These are the benefits, I think though. 1 - I don’t know for sure, but I think the local GBRS committee sees it. For #1, some things I said ended up being very similarly echoed in the GBRS commentary. What I said was totally true!  So I don’t know if it was just a coincidence or if my responses helped jog their memory, etc. 
2 - I think they don’t care if you think your kid is smart. But I think you can say things that they wouldn’t otherwise know. For example I know my oldest has bad handwriting and I did worry about what his work samples would look like. I mentioned that he’s left handed. That’s a fact that I just think is helpful. Additionally, birth dates are included in the packet but I really have no idea how closely they look at that on their own. I called out that mine just made the cutoff because I really did want to make sure they viewed the packet knowing he often has kids over a year older than him in class.

He was in pool on Cogat and admitted on first round a few years ago. No idea whether my comments helped or not but I did do questionnaire again for my #2 this year. I don’t ask people for recs or have them prepare work samples at home. [/quote]

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