Anonymous wrote:Submit high quality work samples even if your kid has high scores and is in pool. My kid had high scores and did not get in until we appealed. I did a much better job on getting high quality work samples for the appeal. Also spend time on the parent questions. I really think having high scores is almost a liability anymore. The committee sees them as elitest or something, so you have to make the case that your child really is a natural talent while being very humble.

Can you please elaborate on the "high quality work samples" part? The guidance on the website is pretty basic, but this being the first time, its getting hard for me to understand what qualifies for a good work sample.

Submit high quality work samples even if your kid has high scores and is in pool. My kid had high scores and did not get in until we appealed. I did a much better job on getting high quality work samples for the appeal. Also spend time on the parent questions. I really think having high scores is almost a liability anymore. The committee sees them as elitest or something, so you have to make the case that your child really is a natural talent while being very humble.

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting, why not submit samples of work

Finding work samples is work. If DD is in-pool, the teacher will submit work samples.

The teacher also submits work samples if you parent refer and child isn’t in pool.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m other words, AFTER the parent referral deadline, so get to work on those even if you expect good results.

Which any good AART would tell you to do anyway, if you think your child needs AAP.

But then you have to submit 6 pages of work, right?

2 pages of work samples.

The AART will say the same thing to everyone. She can't tell some parents that "your DC is a shoo-in" and others that "you need to find great examples", right?

DD got a very high score on the NNAT. Her teacher gushes about her. If she gets a similarly high score on the COGAT, probably we won't submit work examples. We'd like to find out sooner than later, of course.

I think you misunderstood my previous post. Any good AART should be telling parents to fill out a parent referral if they (the parents) feel their child should be in AAP. AART isn’t saying who should do it or not- if a parent says they think their child should be in AAP, AART would tell you to fill out parent referral because other parents are advocating for their children in that way.

FYI - It’s a bad decision to pass on parent submitted work samples even if your kid has great scores. You should submit at least one.

Anonymous wrote:Interesting, why not submit samples of work

Finding work samples is work. If DD is in-pool, the teacher will submit work samples.

Interesting, why not submit samples of work

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m other words, AFTER the parent referral deadline, so get to work on those even if you expect good results.

Which any good AART would tell you to do anyway, if you think your child needs AAP.

But then you have to submit 6 pages of work, right?

2 pages of work samples.

The AART will say the same thing to everyone. She can't tell some parents that "your DC is a shoo-in" and others that "you need to find great examples", right?

DD got a very high score on the NNAT. Her teacher gushes about her. If she gets a similarly high score on the COGAT, probably we won't submit work examples. We'd like to find out sooner than later, of course.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m other words, AFTER the parent referral deadline, so get to work on those even if you expect good results.

Which any good AART would tell you to do anyway, if you think your child needs AAP.

But then you have to submit 6 pages of work, right?

2 pages of work samples.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m other words, AFTER the parent referral deadline, so get to work on those even if you expect good results.

Which any good AART would tell you to do anyway, if you think your child needs AAP.

But then you have to submit 6 pages of work, right?

Anonymous wrote:I’m other words, AFTER the parent referral deadline, so get to work on those even if you expect good results.

Which any good AART would tell you to do anyway, if you think your child needs AAP.

I’m other words, AFTER the parent referral deadline, so get to work on those even if you expect good results.

At least 6 weeks

They’ll be under your tree by Christmas morning.

They took them mid-October last year and got results 1st week of December.

Took on Halloween.