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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A gifted kid should be placed in AAP regardless of where they live. If high SES schools have more gifted kids, then there should be more AAP classes to accomodate them.
My kid who tested in the 98% across all tests, was NOT in pool because we live in a high SES area. Make the pool larger![/quote]

Did you parent refer? Because being in-pool does not mean a kid is placed in AAP LIV. Plenty of parent refered kids are in LIV classes.

The pool does not mean that kids are accepted into AAP. The majority of kids in LIV classes were not in the pool. [/quote]

I did refer, but that's not the point. My point is that it's unfair for a kid at that level to not be considered right away and be placed in pool. Being in pool does increase your chanes of being admited. The same happened with my older child who tested in the 99% and was not in pool. We parent referred in both cases. 
Kids who test at those levels should be accepted into AAP automatically and not be penalized because they have more competition. The higher competition does not change the fact that they need more advanced math. [/quote]

There is nothing on the application that says your child was in-pool or not, at least there didn't used to be. Kids with higher test scores have a better chance of being admitted. It used to be that the in-pool test score was set at a bar that a lot larger number of kids were in-pool. For all we know, the percentage of kids parent referred is going to increase because of the use of local norms. That 132 who was in-pool and accepted now is parent referred and accepted. The 125 kid in in-pool based on local norm maybe isn't accepted and the in-pool accepted percentage drops.

You knew to refer your child. Most of the parents at the UMC/MC schools know that they can refer their children. In-pool is not trying to gather those kids. It is trying to gather people who don't know about the program who have kids who are capable and should be evaluated.

Advanced Math is determined by the school. A kid with high iReady's, high SOLs, and good grades should be included in Advanced Math. Nothing is preventing the individual school from doing just that.

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I think it's very unlikely that the committee doesn't know the inpool score for the school when reviewing the packets from the school.[/quote]

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