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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Honestly there is no tutoring to be done prior to Level IV unless your child is a complete idiot. The math and school work they do is SO rudimentary, like "you have five apples, three get taken away," or "here's a clock, what time is it?" Tutoring at that age is nothing but a sham cash grab by "education companies." There is basically no way to tutor a child into a great IQ score. It's a time constrained test with abstract problems (talking about NNAT here) that are slightly different on every test. Sure you can teach a kid that the triangle rotates left by 1/2 turn in each picture, but then s/he gets the actual NNAT and the triangle is now a square with dots moving around inside of it. People simply to won't to accept the fact that these tests are a measure of cognitive ability that can't be trained. The "waaaaaah tutoring" cryers just have kids that aren't every smart.[/quote]

LOL My kid was accepted into AAP with no tutoring or test prep. We do a fair amount of supplementing at home (logic puzzles, strategic games, STEM extracurriculars) and I am aware that helped our child. I am more amazed that parents are willing to send their kids for tutoring in Kindergarten. But that is me. Different strokes for different folks. [/quote]

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