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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You're disappointed that your child is in the 99th percentile?[/quote]

I’m disappointed in the 135 part.

My other kid was in the 130s and he didn’t get in to AAP.[/quote]

Because the teacher form (GBRS in the past/HOPE now) can tank or make a kid.

Kids in the 100s can get in with a good form, kids in the 130s won't with a bad one. This has been public info for years.

Prepping doesn't make a difference in the case of a kid in the 130s. Having a good form does.[/quote]

If this is true, why bother giving students NNAT and Cogat? Why doesn't FCPS just assign students in AAP by teacher's referral[/quote]

When it was largely based off the CogAt/NNAT/other tests, there was a lot of - maybe too much - prepping. Plus very low diversity in AAP (although it’s still pretty low in some areas). If the criteria was only the teacher forms and no testing, people would find other ways to game the system, plus some teachers would give any kid who wants one a good form and others would be a lot stricter so it could lead to uneven outcomes. Then you’d have “oh I heard Mrs. Blah at X school gives bad AAP recs but Mrs. Blahblah gives good ones and how can I guarantee my kid is in Mrs. Blahblah’s class” and it would be 100x more ridiculous than it is today. [/quote]

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