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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think a lot of the people aren't intending to be nasty.  They're just confused by the system.  You have to admit that your children have low test scores for AAP admission.  So, there must have been some other "It" factor in the application that convinced the committee to accept them.  People are trying to figure out what that is.  Likewise, people with very high stats who get rejected are frustrated and trying to understand what their kid seems to be lacking.

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I am the parent of the child with scores that posted earlier. One snarky comment doesn't deter me from sharing - just took me a bit of time to find my bearing on how to best respond in a way that is helpful.

As the earlier person mentioned - if you only read this forum you would think that one would need one or both of the cogat/nnat scores to be 130+ to get in. That is not always the case based on our experience (and a couple of other posters.) And, as mentioned earlier by someone else - these boards may not give a true overall picture.

Our DC is a bright kid. Not a genius. Bilingual with very strong verbal reasoning and comprehension skills. DRE at the max for sure (reading Rick Riordian/Mullen type books non-stop since 1st grade.) When we parent-referred we did not yet have the cogat scores. We did put together a pretty extensive package with the help of someone that had done one a previous year.

We knew NNAT was low so we got WISC done to have an additional data point and submitted with the package (not having seen advice on here that suggested keeping that for an appeal.)

We attached letters of support/recommendation from coaches/instructors in extracurricular activities (to support that DC would be able to succeed with workloads in AAP), work sample in math/writing and a very honest 1 page letter explaining why we felt regular classes were not working and why AAP would be a better fit. All to give the committee as complete and true a picture of our DC and challenges in school as we could.

While waiting for the AAP determination letter we didn't have high hopes. We assumed that there would be an initial screening of parent-referrals and that applications with scores below a certain threshold would be put in a "no" pile and not really throughly scrutinized in this round (assumed they would do the in-dept review on the appeals.)
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