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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The scores is good, OP. It certainly isn't going to hurt your kid. The issue is that they no longer place much emphasis on the scores. The committee takes the GBRS more seriously.

Ultimately it is an advanced program, not a gifted program and, [b]in a way, the GBRS measures the likelihood of success in an advanced program[/b]. Clearly kids with strong executive functions do well on GBRS and get into AAP even if their score is in the 120s. If your child scores 140 but has a mediocre GBRS, she won't get in.

It wasn't like this ten-fifteen years ago. Back then, most kids in-pool were pretty much in.[/quote]

It really doesn't, though.  Years ago, my kid tested at multiple years above grade level in all domains and way above the 99th percentile cutoff in both math and reading iready tests.   He got perfect scores on the two academic portions of the GBRS, but still got poor scores in the "Creativity" and "Motivation" parts of the GBRS.  The teacher only viewed kids as "motivated" if they asked for extra busywork and took a lot of time on coloring sheets.  If they instead were studying things on their own or reading very advanced for grade level books, the teacher viewed them as unmotivated.  Likewise, if they didn't create pretty artwork, she viewed the kid as uncreative.

[b]If they truly wanted to measure likelihood of success in an advanced program, the best measurement would be whether the kid is advanced based on end-of-year/beginning-of-year tests, DRA, iready, or some other achievement test. [/b] [/quote]

This is true because AAP (and, at least back in the day, TJ also) is actually a program based on your current level of [i]achievement[/i] not your ability. High performing but merely sorta smart kid? You'll do great. Low performing genius? You won't actually do that well.

They occasionally ask AAP kids to intuit something slightly complicated about math on the theory that this is how supposedly-gifted brains work, but other than that it's just a program that requires you to want to learn.

But the state mandates something for actually gifted kids, so they have to pretend AAP is that.[/quote]

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