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[quote=Anonymous]Well, I'm the one with the child with the large discrepency in the WISC scores.  It looks like we will need to submit the scores because she did not get in (had a perfect score on one section of the Cogat, which gave her a composite of 132 but other scores were lower).  He GBRS must not have been that great.  Apparently, no one else thinks she's as smart as we do.  :(

Actually, she's a little bit of a late bloomer.  Also this is her first year in schools in the US (although we're American, but she's been living overseas).  I think it took her a while to get into the groove.  She has not spent a ton of time around native English speakers the past few years.  I also think her homeroom teacher doesn't like her very much (although her reading and math teachers seems to really like her).

So I guess I request the file from the school to see the GBRS and figure out if that was the problem?  Then file an appeal, right?

ANother question -- she's from a school without Local Level IV.  I wonder if they rank the kids low to try to keep them whereas a school with LL IV would try to convince the kids to say.  I say this because at the AAP intro meeting, the AAP counselor at the school talked about how kids often leave our school for the centers and then come back because the centers aren't always as great as everyone says and our school is so great, etc.

Is it possible to get the stats of the percentage of kids accepted out of the pool from various schools?  Not to use for anything but to satisfy my curiosity.

Honestly, I don't want to send her somewhere that is not right for her, but she seems to get brighter by the day.  this year has been a huge leap forward for her.  I guess of she doesn't get in this year, I could refer her next year.
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