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[quote=DS63][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most people who appeal get in -- just sayin'[/quote]

Absolutely true at our center.  [/quote]

At [b]any [/b]center, by defintion, most kids got in through parental appeal. If only 5% FCPS kids make the pool, but the program includes 20% of the FCPS kids (really, what overall percentage is it?), it stands to reason that most kids in AAP came from outside the pool -&gt; parent referal.

That still does not mean that most kids who appeal make it in.

What you could probably say is that some schools are more relaxed in offering high GBRS scores than others -- either because they want a slim upper grades cohort, or because they just are inclined to believe in ther kids more. In those schools, it is more likely that a parent referral will be successful. A kid with great GBRS scores, but who is not in the pool, will still not make AAP unless parents appeal. So the talk at the playground may well be that all you have to do is self-refer at some schools, and the school administraton may well be quietly approving that message. But in general, what drives admissons are not the test scores, and not the parental referral. It's the GBRS.

So... spend time with your kid building the social skills that teachers are looking for -- and throw in a bit of advanced math and some good reads of your own. That should work better than any test prep.[/quote]

You confuse parental referral and the appeals process.  Parental referral is so the county can consider kids not in the pool.  That includes kids that scored below benchmark, and kids that were not evaluated by the county.[/quote]

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