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[quote=Anonymous]I'm Mexican. I came to the US legally when I was 14. My ESL (we all speak English but we only speak Spanish at home) child did not get into the pool last year. NNAT and CogAT scores were in the teens. Not even close to 132. We parent referred. My husband and I are both attorneys. We're upper middle class, even if I do get confused for the help by white people on a regular basis. Good old Fairfax County. Anyway, had a WISC done. My daughter did very well. We submitted it in the parental referral. She got in on the first round, no thanks to the GBRS score. Pretty sure the teacher thought she was just some average non-impressive hispanic kid. Thank goodness we could afford the WISC. She also had good work samples and recommendations. She is thriving at the center.  The AAP program would not have included my daughter without the WISC score.  I'm sure there are many like her and some in here would say she is not cut out for AAP due to her NNAT and CogAT scores but her WISC said otherwise she was in the top 99.5%. Did she have a bad day, twice? Was the test culturally bias? Whatever the case, it did not see her as AAP material and now look at her. So I could care less how she gets there, if people think she belongs there. I care that she is there and doing well. [/quote]

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