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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]GBRS is the most important factor.  Then CogAT Q.  Median CogAT V score for admitted kids is around 119.  [/quote]

This is interesting given common wisdom on DCUM, which suggests that kids must score at least in the upper 120s to have a real shot at admission.  I'd bet the DCUM advice is pretty accurate for wealthy schools (representing the vast majority of DCUM posters) but substantially less so for higher-FARMs schools.  For example, a student who scores a 115 on the CogAT verbal in a high-FARMs school where the average CogAT verbal score is only 95, arguably has a much greater need for differentiation than a student who scores 115 in a wealthy school where the average is 110.  [/quote]

Putting the whole race discussion aside, I found this to be the most interesting part of the report, particularly when you consider that the bulk of the admissions are not minorities. They can't pull a median down like this folks. Basic stats.[/quote]

It was surprising to me, as well.  Conventional dcum wisdom is that Verbal is the most important, Q is the middle, and NV is relatively unimportant.  Admitted stats show that Q scores have the highest mean, with NV not too far behind and Verbal far in the rear.  [/quote]

What the maker of the test actually said was that even scores were best, but if they were uneven the importance for gifted program success is Q -> V -> NV.[/quote]

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