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[quote=Anonymous]I taught there many years ago. At the time the school required a WISC or equivalent with a 130 FSIQ or above. There were two major problems with this. When the recession hit in the early 2000s, a lot of families of bright kids bailed for FCPS AAP. That was around the time AAP really started to expand and the program captured a lot of kids whose families were lukewarm about paying $30,000 in tuition for elementary school. They did get some families who applied because they wanted AAP for their kids and the kids were not selected but there weren't enough of those families to make up for the outflow. A 120 IQ is not going to get a kid into AAP without standout scores on other tests but it will get you into Nysmith. The second thing was referenced by a PP: Nysmith was not going to turn away tuition dollars from a family who had 4 kids and only one hit the 130 cutoff. It's a for-profit school and it's run like a business.[/quote]
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