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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Still seems like 2500 kids in pool is way too many-I had heard usual number of kids in pool is about 1200 and that of those, 2/3rds are accepted.[/quote]

Per the presentation at last night's AAPAC meeting, the "usual" number of kids in the pool is roughly 2,000. Historically, approximately 67% of these in-pool kids are found center-eligible. Historically, the average GBRS of the center-eligible kids is 13.[/quote]

But I wonder how the sheer number of kids in the pool is going to change how the committee screens the files. In years past, there were kids in the pool who scored in the average range on everything but one subsection of the cogat, and those kids were likely found ineligible unless they had an abnormally high GBRS. Using the cogat composite instead of one subsection score to determine the pool has eliminated that phenomenon. So now (GBRS aside) we have 3 categories of kids...those who were parent referred, those who scored high on either NNAT or Cogat, and those who scored high on both.

It makes me wonder if the committee will view the files in a different light considering that there aren't as many average scorers automatically in the pool, but obviously, they can't find everyone eligible.

I do agree with a pp that kids who have 99th percentile on all test scores (including all subsections of the cogat) should be found eligible regardless of their file. It would definitely save the committee some time by not having to go through that stack of files.  [/quote]

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