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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This was not the case with us at all.  I, too, volunteer a lot and every kid I expected to get in did.  We are lucky because they are all DC closest friends.  One teacher told me that there are a few surprises each year; kids you think will get in don't and kids who you think won't- do.  It really comes down to the test.  It has an arbitrary cut-off so like this year it was 130.  If your DC's peer group all got 128's they would not make it in the pool unless the parent refers.  However, if this is your 1st child you have no idea about all of this as they don't spell it out and most people have no idea what those scores that come in the mail in Jan are for (unless it comes with the "in pool letter")  So, I guess what I am saying is that a lot of equally qualified kids get left out because they probably missed ONE question to not get the 130 and that is really a shame because it means absolutely nothing (those two points) but they have to have a cut-off somewhere I guess.  It is a crazy process but the only one they have; I really do not think they hold back intentionally.[/quote]

this post contains so much factual misinformtion it is hard to be taken seriously. Many many kids below 130 CogAt get in. Have you read this board for long?  Some get in with 115 and lower.  [/quote]

Trying not to be offended by your tone.   You are right = kids with low test scores (under 130) get in all the time because the parent referred.  You have to have one or the other and then other things are looked at.  That was all I was saying to this poster who thought kids she saw in the classroom should be in the pool but were not.  I was simply saying if they did not make the cut-off (from test) it does not make them any less bright from what she witnessed in the classroom.  For example, it could be a simple 129 vs130.  Maybe you you did not understand my post which is fine but it is really not "so much factual misinformation."  The test does have a cut-off score to be automatically in the pool.  But, you are right in that there are many kids who get in with lower results.

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