What is GBRS exactly and what do you mean with recommendation letter??

Anonymous wrote:How likely my kid get in with appealing with these scores

Cogat 141
Nnat123
Iready math and reading 86 87

It’s not just scores. I know someone who got in with low 90s cogat score. AART teacher said GBRS is weighted pretty heavy. So I would recommend you talk to your AART and see if the GBRS was low and perhaps you can appeal with letters of recommendation.

Girl, 144 NNAT, 138 CogAt (144 quant), consistently 99% iReady on math and reading since K, good grades but wouldn’t be surprised if her HOPE was mediocre as she has focus/attentiveness issues. But she’s in.

How likely my kid get in with appealing with these scores

Cogat 141
Nnat123
Iready math and reading 86 87

Anonymous wrote:What is HOPE?

The HOPE scale is the teacher rating system that replaced the GBRS this year.

What is HOPE?

My kids’ teachers have told me that their iReady scores in early years might have been low because they just weren’t used to taking tests or doing anything on a computer. They don’t have tablets, they don’t play video games, they do watch tv but that’s not interactive. I thought that was an interesting assessment. My 2nd grader is one of the ones with high COGAT and NNAT but iReady scores below 90%.

Also not good - so that must be it. Thanks.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NNAT 160
COGAT 135

NOT in.

Were their iReady scores low?

I am not sure - Reading was 71 and Math was 86. Is that terrible?

Those scores are low. How was Hope rating

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NNAT 160
COGAT 135

NOT in.

Were their iReady scores low?

I am not sure - Reading was 71 and Math was 86. Is that terrible?

Hit send too fast.

NNAT 160 (which they said was perfect - our teachers had never seen one, though I am sure it's not a never)

COGAT 135

NOT in. My husband was so unhappy. It does seem a bit much.

Anonymous wrote:NNAT 160
COGAT 135

NOT in.

Were their iReady scores low?

NNAT 160
COGAT 135

NOT in.

Madison Pyramid
Cogat 149
NNAT 119
iReady math 99%
iReady reading 97%
No idea about HOPE

In

Anonymous wrote:Kid got in with scores in the 140's and mostly Always on HOPE, but I really feel like this process is too random/subjective, etc. Sound like lots of kids with nearly perfect NNAT/CogAT didn't get in. Assuming these are legit, that hurts the program. It will be less challenging for the kids who did get in.

Not a lot. All 3-5 of them in the county with high scores that were not admitted each year post on these threads and it looks like a lot but it isn't.

You can hate the program, if you want, but do it in a rational way.