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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So we now have to go to GMU? How ridiculous. My daughter won’t be in the pool with her crummy NNAT score. But I bet she would do well on the CogAT. This is completely unfair.[/quote]

My DS's NNAT is also low.  Will they weigh other data points more strongly such as iready? I wonder how this will work.

We already have a WISC scheduled this fall as part of an evaluation, which we could use. But that's not true for most families.[/quote]

The equity report showed that NNAT was almost irrelevant, and GBRS was over 4 times as important as CogAT scores for selection.  This year, the key will be having your child fully participate in the DL and go above and beyond with the DL homework.  [/quote]

So an imperfect teacher’s subjective impression of the child is 4(!!) times as important as an objective test developed after much research? 
Riiight, because there is never any discrepancies among teachers in how generously they grade or evaluate and the teacher is perfectly objective evaluating the kids in their class. 
Of course UMC kids have the testing advantage over the poor kids who might have potential for AAP but don't get the same support from parents. But how many parents are supplementing a 7 year old with tutoring or similar to get into AAP? We are not taking TJ admissions. Most kids don't get all that tutoring extra for AAP.  Excluding the genius types or the very slim minority, most kids who are in pool already will show signs of being smart, academic, advanced for their grade, what not. You need test scores to be able to better distinguish among that similar crowd. I would even support creating a generous sized quotas to put in equity kids based on family income, but for goodness sake don't put such an unreasonable weight on the GRBS. So foolish. [/quote]

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