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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not a falsehood.  I know for a fact that a close friend got a wisc in mid 120s in first grade.  Asked around, went to a different psych., paid roughly double, and got the 99% she paid for.  She acknowledged this, and has since referred people to same psych.

Just because you know one student who went to one tester and didn't get a high score doesn't mean this practice isn't commonplace.  [/quote]

Please list the name of the two psychologists, if true.  Let me guess...you won't.[/quote]

Yep. More holes than Swiss cheese. To begin with, you have to wait a year between tests.  This isn't something you can just turn around and get a second, third and fourth opinion about opinion about. Second of all, testers should be charging within $100 of GMU. I've never heard of someone charging $900 for AAP testing vs $450 for GMU.  That would stand out as very strange.  Also, who does this, and then goes and tells people,"Larla's only in AAP because I bribed a psychologist to give her a high score. She's not really gifted.  I just put one over on the AAP screening committee."  No one "acknowledges" that there kid doesn't belong in AAP.

And no, I don't think it's "commonplace" for people to pay $900 for a WISC (vs $450 for GMU) because there are testers (PhDs, BTW) "selling" 140 WISCs.   Even if all psychologists were completely lacking in professional ethics (and I hope that is not the case), as PP points out, FCPS does track this and flag it when one psychologist is regularly giving high WISCs out of line with the other data on kids.  It's a great way to get your credentials pulled.

AAP Troll score: 2 (generally would be Troll score 4, but we expect more from AAP trolls). 
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