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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most of the people who are most adamantly against aap or TJ or the like have traditionally average kids.

What do you think qualifies you to have a valid opinion or a meaningful input if you don’t have a real understanding of gifted individuals?[/quote]

Ask all of the people who have been using exam prep to pass their kids off as brighter than they are.[/quote]

This happens ALL the time with ALL kinds of tests. Med school grads have to take the board test and law school grads have to pass the bar exam to become licensed. Are you saying these people cheated because they used prep materials including previously used exam questions when preparing to take these tests? [/quote]

Public school programs should be open to everyone, not just those who can afford to invest heavily in prep. Med school grads and would be lawyers do in fact almost uniformly enroll in prep classes. Don't think it's fair to expect children to do this in order to compete.[/quote]

While there appear to be some schools were prep is common, I am guessing that the in-pool scores over 140 are high prep areas, there are plenty of schools were prep is not common. DS scored 135 on the NNAT and CogAT, no prep. He was accepted into AAP. I don’t think any of his friends prepped. I doubt that there is a ton of prep at Title 1 schools and near Title 1 schools.

People on this board tend to think that the patterns posted here apply to the entire County but they probably don’t.

Not to mention that there are a lot of seats for AAP so it isn’t a competition. More likely then not, kids not being accepted are kids with GBRS issues and not score issues.  [/quote]

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