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[quote=Anonymous]I get it OP. I would like to know what the lowest scores in each category were for accepted students. So for instance how far below the median did kids who were admitted score. It's impossible to know. I can hypothesize that it probably wasn't much lower than 10 points below the median, but I really have no idea! For all I know children who bombed the test were admitted due to other factors! We don't know. You could call the MCPS department that administers this test...AFI or whatever. They may be able to give you some information. For instance, national averages for students who have taken the test. It would be interesting to see the range of scores in MCPS since this is a self selected group of kids, most of whom have presumably been doing above grade level work for a few years. There just isn't that much transparancy in the process. They aren't going to provide that much info if they can help it, because some of the selection is neccessarily subjective and inevitably it leaves out people who could benefit from the program.

Talk to your DC's teacher and call the division of accelerated instruction for more info. Maybe it's  just a matter of a restless 8 or 9 year old not really into focusing on yet another adult driven way to catagorize him, kwim? [/quote]

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