Anonymous wrote:Private is not necessarily better than general ed. Depending on the school there are many levels of gifted services and general ed classes can have smaller class size ratios. AAP is not the end all of public school.

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I read somewhere (too lazy to look up the source - just google it) that someone did an analysis of public vs private schcools and found that private is not necessarily better, public actually outperformed privates

Private is not necessarily better than general ed. Depending on the school there are many levels of gifted services and general ed classes can have smaller class size ratios. AAP is not the end all of public school.

If you are choosing between public and private based on AAP admission likelihood, you need to either wait until he has his CogAT score or, even longer, for the GBRS score before you make a decision, which means after second grade OR you can put him in private, have him tested privately next year and decide to move him back or not into public OR you can do a WISC now and see what his scores are to give you a better idea of his chances of admission. You can't make the decision now, however, with just one score, even if that one score for his NNAT was in the pool, which your son's isn't. Meaning: even if your son got a very high score on the NNAT, you would still have little idea if he'd be a likely candidate for the program or not.

FWIW, both my children scored in the mid 120's on the NNAT and scored in the 130's on the CogAt. Both were "in pool" for AAP.

Anonymous wrote:Impossible to say without knowing the CogAt scores and GBRS. Even with those scores -- no one can say for absolute certain unless the CogAT is at the very, very top.

With 125, your child is not automatically in the pool of kids who will be considered. His/her CogAT scores could put him/her in the pool, though. 125 does not show an extraordinary strength, but it's still in the zone of reasonable possibility. He/she is in striking distance but will need other scores that are equal or higher to increase odds.

Thanks for your thoughtful response. We're trying to decide whether or not to move my son from public to private/parochial. The one thing that might keep us in public schools is if he had a chance to go AAP.

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Anonymous wrote:Between 0-100%.

Are you sure about that?

No, just a random guess.

Anonymous wrote:Between 0-100%.

Are you sure about that?

Impossible to say without knowing the CogAt scores and GBRS. Even with those scores -- no one can say for absolute certain unless the CogAT is at the very, very top.

With 125, your child is not automatically in the pool of kids who will be considered. His/her CogAT scores could put him/her in the pool, though. 125 does not show an extraordinary strength, but it's still in the zone of reasonable possibility. He/she is in striking distance but will need other scores that are equal or higher to increase odds.

Between 0-100%.

My child has a NNAT score of 125. What are his chances of getting into AAP?