^ excuse me, hit 9th grade.

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Anonymous wrote:If AAP targets to top 3% or 5%, prep classes may not help much, sadly, if AAP targets to top 20~30%, prep classes will help dramatically. Average kids can get in easily with extra help.

And they absolutely do. Check out the current 5th grade AAP classes. What a sham.

But they struggle, too. My 5th grader is sailing through as she was placed based on very high scores. Some of her classmates transferred out of the program in 3rd and 4th grades.

+1

Seeing the same thing with our 5th grade classes at our AAP Center. But the poster you are responding to will be targeting the Class of 2022 subset of Level IV AAP students for the next 7 years.

No, just the next three years. By high school, they will no longer be a "subset" of the class anymore.

Good to know you will only be targeting these kids for three more years. Thanks for the heads up.

Yeah, like pp, I will also keep an ear out for your criticisms over the next three years until our kids hit 7th grade and are on level again.

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Anonymous wrote:If AAP targets to top 3% or 5%, prep classes may not help much, sadly, if AAP targets to top 20~30%, prep classes will help dramatically. Average kids can get in easily with extra help.

And they absolutely do. Check out the current 5th grade AAP classes. What a sham.

But they struggle, too. My 5th grader is sailing through as she was placed based on very high scores. Some of her classmates transferred out of the program in 3rd and 4th grades.

+1

Seeing the same thing with our 5th grade classes at our AAP Center. But the poster you are responding to will be targeting the Class of 2022 subset of Level IV AAP students for the next 7 years.

No, just the next three years. By high school, they will no longer be a "subset" of the class anymore.

Good to know you will only be targeting these kids for three more years. Thanks for the heads up.

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Anonymous wrote:If AAP targets to top 3% or 5%, prep classes may not help much, sadly, if AAP targets to top 20~30%, prep classes will help dramatically. Average kids can get in easily with extra help.

And they absolutely do. Check out the current 5th grade AAP classes. What a sham.

But they struggle, too. My 5th grader is sailing through as she was placed based on very high scores. Some of her classmates transferred out of the program in 3rd and 4th grades.

+1

Seeing the same thing with our 5th grade classes at our AAP Center. But the poster you are responding to will be targeting the Class of 2022 subset of Level IV AAP students for the next 7 years.

No, just the next three years. By high school, they will no longer be a "subset" of the class anymore.

Anonymous wrote:If AAP targets to top 3% or 5%, prep classes may not help much, sadly, if AAP targets to top 20~30%, prep classes will help dramatically. Average kids can get in easily with extra help.

First, it's absolutely wrong to say AAP targets top 20-30%.
Second, top 3% nationally is roughly top 10-15% in FCPS.

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Anonymous wrote:If AAP targets to top 3% or 5%, prep classes may not help much, sadly, if AAP targets to top 20~30%, prep classes will help dramatically. Average kids can get in easily with extra help.

And they absolutely do. Check out the current 5th grade AAP classes. What a sham.

But they struggle, too. My 5th grader is sailing through as she was placed based on very high scores. Some of her classmates transferred out of the program in 3rd and 4th grades.

+1

Seeing the same thing with our 5th grade classes at our AAP Center. But the poster you are responding to will be targeting the Class of 2022 subset of Level IV AAP students for the next 7 years.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If AAP targets to top 3% or 5%, prep classes may not help much, sadly, if AAP targets to top 20~30%, prep classes will help dramatically. Average kids can get in easily with extra help.

And they absolutely do. Check out the current 5th grade AAP classes. What a sham.

But they struggle, too. My 5th grader is sailing through as she was placed based on very high scores. Some of her classmates transferred out of the program in 3rd and 4th grades.

Anonymous wrote:If AAP targets to top 3% or 5%, prep classes may not help much, sadly, if AAP targets to top 20~30%, prep classes will help dramatically. Average kids can get in easily with extra help.

And they absolutely do. Check out the current 5th grade AAP classes. What a sham.

If AAP targets to top 3% or 5%, prep classes may not help much, sadly, if AAP targets to top 20~30%, prep classes will help dramatically. Average kids can get in easily with extra help.

Anonymous wrote:GT should be considered special education and treated accordingly. Truly gifted children have legitimate special needs that cannot be served in a program that serving mainly bright, compliant high-achievers.

You have a good point, but we all know there's no going back. As has been repeated very often on this board, AAP has gone from being for only the most gifted, outtside-the-box thinkers to a large number of very bright high-achievers (my DS being one of them) and parents will never accept scaling the program back now.

Anonymous wrote:Is AAP still a program for really gifted? Feel like it is downgraded to serve majorities.
GT used to target top 3~5% kids, now, watered to top 20%???
It's not the original GT anymore.

Ha ha. The kids I see in AAP are thriving. GT is a dated term but troll is unfortunately still current.

OMG. Just. O.M.G.

GT should be considered special education and treated accordingly. Truly gifted children have legitimate special needs that cannot be served in a program that serving mainly bright, compliant high-achievers.

I heard kids hate Sunshine Academy. An old lady hired Fairfax public school teaches to prep AAP tests all summer and now in a church nearby Fair Oaks Mall.

I can't believe no one has posted Sunshine Academy here. They have had prep classes for NNAT and COGAT since last summer and fall. The kids go every Sat. It is not on their website but I am on their email list so we get the notices. Note: We are not even in FCPS so we don't even take this test, and even I was like, "HUH?" when I saw Sunshine's emails about this.