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Anonymous wrote:I wonder if schools with own special norms under new process are the ones who got notified tonight?

Any perennial top performing schools send letters tonight? I'm thinking Franklin Sherman, Great Falls ES, Haycock, Canterbury Woods, Waynewood, Mantua, Churchill Road?

Please explain the special norms. I am in one of those schools and have not heard about this yet.

new post - also at one of those schools and didn't hear anything. Another poster said it was coming from central AAP -- not the individual schools. So... question - would they really send out to some schools with the new norms and not others? This process is clear as mud.
They could just release the score online when they send out emails like this to make it easier.

Are these all second graders? Third grade also took Cogat this year...

Anonymous wrote:They are allowing low scores way below 132 cutoff ( 125 or even less) from lower performing schools to increase the number of URMs. So, it’s fair to increase the cutoff in high performing schools like Haycock and other Vienna, great falls and McLean schools.
And they say AAP has no admission limit. There is a cap. To take few more students from low performing schools they have to let go some deserving bright kids from high performing schools. Welcome to the country and county of Equity!

That is not how it works. The schools with lower scores, probably Title I schools with more URM, are not the schools with the kids you think will get edged out. The kids coming from schools with lower scores would not be attending the schools or Centers for the kids you claim will be edged out. If there is a cap, and I do think that there is one, it is by individual school and Center. The kid from Hutchingson with a lower score is not going to affect the kid from Great Falls because they go to different Centers.

I am the previous poster whose DD scored a 137 on the NNAT. We did not receive an email; we checked spam. We are in the Oakton pyramid. No local level IV.

Ours is a center school. Do not know the cogat scores but DC scored high in NNAT. We got the email.

Anonymous wrote:For people who received an email, can you clarify if you have a level IV program at your elementary school. This includes if you happen to be at the center school.

No level IV at our school. NNAT wasn't high enough to be in pool. DD must have done better on the CogAT for us to get the email.

Anonymous wrote:But PP from the alleged SEES pyramid isn't going to impact or compete with kids from Vienna or GF or McLean for space in AAP

Boohoo! Frustrating much?

For people who received an email, can you clarify if you have a level IV program at your elementary school. This includes if you happen to be at the center school.

Anonymous wrote: You sad, sad people.

What do you mean? If you are not interested why are you here and posting? Stay away and be happy 😃

You sad, sad people.

PP with 137 NNAT, check all your emails and junk folder. You may have missed the email.

Email at 7:02pm for pool. Kid had 133 NNAT, which is higher than siblings who are currently both AAP.

But PP from the alleged SEES pyramid isn't going to impact or compete with kids from Vienna or GF or McLean for space in AAP

Anonymous wrote:They are allowing low scores way below 132 cutoff ( 125 or even less) from lower performing schools to increase the number of URMs. So, it’s fair to increase the cutoff in high performing schools like Haycock and other Vienna, great falls and McLean schools.
And they say AAP has no admission limit. There is a cap. To take few more students from low performing schools they have to let go some deserving bright kids from high performing schools. Welcome to the country and county of Equity!

Is this your armchair speculating bs, or are you actually knowledgeable about how the cut scores were determined?

PP with kid who has 137NNAT what high school pyramid are you?