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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I suspect that the WPPSI is used primarily to weed out or flag kids with learning disabilities, developmental delays or behavior problems. Testing a 4-year-old is utterly ridiculous. It's not a predictor of success or failure in life.[/quote]

This. It's not just the scores but the 'profile' of the scores.  If scores are overall high, but are low on a couple of things (including processing speed), [b]they fear learning disabilities and your child is tossed. [/b]Of course, that profile does not mean by any stretch that the child has an LD, it's just that some kids with LDs have that profile. But the schools aren't wortied about being fair to applicants; they just want to minimize their risks and have plenty of kids to choose from.[/quote]

I wouldn't generalize to "tossed." You would be surprised what other positive and desirable characteristics in an application can do. The visit is also huge. If the WPPSI score is slightly suspect, but the accompanying narrative is good and the kid is a standout in the visit, oddities can be overcome. [/quote]

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