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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow.  For those reported with strong number including currently in HGC program, test scores 99% both verbal and quantitative, all As in 5th grade, we also faced similar rejection for Takoma and Eastern.  Our kid is among the few who also has the same number.  It looks like the new selection process of testing is not looking for gifted students but instead aims to diversify the program. This is too bad.[/quote]

It makes sense. Better to take a brilliant kid out of a crappy school area where no other kids are performing at their level - and put them in a high achieving environment, than to take a bunch of high achieving kids out of an already high achieving environment and deny the other kid a better chance in life.[/quote]

But presumably that number of brilliant kids in underperforming schools is relatively low. It's hard to see those numbers warranting what seems (anecdotally right now) to be a high rejection rate of students currently performing at a "highly gifted" level. Obviously if the high-performing schools provided comparable gifted instruction, that would be one thing. But they don't.[/quote]

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