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[b]The default is that prepping is not widespread[/b]. Just because you found some books at a supermarket doesn't make it a widespread phenomenon.  You have no data to support it's happening. [/quote]
How convenient that you decide the default is your position and thus don't need to support it with any evidence.   :roll:  I think the default is that we're just like everywhere else.  Widespread prepping is an acknowledged problem for NYC gifted programs.  Why would you imagine that we're so different from the people in NYC?  I can't find the article right now, but even the authors of the CogAT have noted that the test is being heavily prepped, and that will inflate the scores.

[b]Your viewpoint seems to be that all of the type A, overly obsessed, tiger parents who put their kids in Kumon and prep their kids for TJ are somehow totally chill about whether their kids get into AAP.  Also,  people in Fairfax are so special that even though prepping is widespread everywhere else that has dedicated gifted programs, with proportionally way too many kids in the top 2%, we don't prep and just legitimately have much more gifted kids than everywhere else.  If you want to believe that, it's your prerogative, but the viewpoint is completely illogical.[/b]

Are you only defining prepping as attending one of the prep camps?  What about the numerous people on this forum who claim that they "aren't prepping," but rather they just got the Amazon workbook or did demo problems on testing mom, just so their kids were "familiar with the test format."  Are those people prepping or aren't they?  Perhaps our difference in opinion is that I would view all of that as prepping, too.  The test was normed assuming that the kids are going in completely blind, other than the handful of official demo problems shown to everyone by the teacher.  Any teaching or discussion of the test beyond that could lead to inflated results.

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Why would the default be that a large portion of people cheat? That sounds ridiculous.

I had not heard of any of these tests until the results were sent home and had no idea that they were used for AAP selection until reading about it on DCUM when applying. My child did zero prep for any of these tests, was automatically in pool and got in on the first application. So, yes it's a foreign concept that anyone would prep for what should be an accurate read of whether they are prepared for AAP.

I would call anything from buying a prep book to taking a class prepping.[/quote]

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