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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would be surprised because a 150 or 146 is significantly above the cutoff score.  About 60-70% of the kids in the pool get in, so your chances are good just by being in the pool at all.  Few kids will have a perfect score on anything.  So your child is probably in the top 10% of the pool in terms of test scores, and again, 60-70% of the pool is getting in.

Also, I don't believe that lower scores in other subsections detract from the high scores.  Keep in mind the purpose of the screening tests - to identify gifted children whose needs will not be met in the base school classroom.  A child who scores a perfect score on the nonverbal or quantitative sections NEEDS to be in the Center - the base school does not meet that child's needs in that area, even if the child would be fine in the base school with regard to another area, such as verbal.

It's also important to remember that the scores are not weighted more heavily than anything else in the application process, so there are children with lower scores getting in if there is other evidence in the file that the child needs to be in the Center.  Your child's somewhat lower scores on the other test or other subsections shouldn't be an obstacle, IMO, and even less so if there is other support in the file (i.e., the classroom teacher believes the child should be in the Center, etc.), which I assume there will be.

I'm basing this on my personal experience only.  I have one child in the Center, one applying now, and I have talked to a lot of parents and several people in FCPS who are involved with the process.  The bottom line is that I would be surprised if a child with a perfect score on one of the screening tests was found ineligible for placement in the Center.  [/quote]

I'm not the PP, but I hope you're right.  My child has a perfect NNAT and CogAT scores are in the 99th percentile.  Nevertheless, I have heard from other parents of multiple instances where a child obtained a perfect score on either the NNAT or a CogAT subsection and still was denied entry to the GT center.  The GBRS scores seem to carry a lot of weight.  Also, some base school principals are reluctant to send their "best" students away to a GT center, so you may have to look out for that.  The selection process is imperfect, of course.[/quote]

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