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Anonymous wrote:MY DD has low GBRS(8), LOW NNAT( 93percentile) , LOW COGAT( 95 percentile) but she has 3s and 4s in her school credit ... We are planning to appeal with high WISC (142). Any chance of her getting in this year?

Assuming that is FSIQ and not one subset score, I would say yes.

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Anonymous wrote:MY DD has low GBRS(8), LOW NNAT( 93percentile) , LOW COGAT( 95 percentile) but she has 3s and 4s in her school credit ... We are planning to appeal with high WISC (142). Any chance of her getting in this year?

Anonymous wrote:MY DD has low GBRS(8), LOW NNAT( 93percentile) , LOW COGAT( 95 percentile) but she has 3s and 4s in her school credit ... We are planning to appeal with high WISC (142). Any chance of her getting in this year?

Anonymous wrote:MY DD has low GBRS(8), LOW NNAT, LOW COGAT but she has 3s and 4s in her school credit ... We are planning to appeal with high WISC (142). Any chance of her getting in this year?

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Anonymous wrote:Do first graders have GBRS scores in their files? Thanks.

I think there should be a number score. I don't think there is commentary that goes along with it.

Anonymous wrote:Do first graders have GBRS scores in their files? Thanks.

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Anonymous wrote:There are no fixed slots for AAP.

Are you sure about that?

Almost certainly. DD was in an AAP class of 34 last year. Also AAP is considered to be a form of special Ed. You're entitled if you qualify. [/
There is not an entitlement in this county for AAP. There is not a min IQ that entitles students To be qualified for AAP. Many districts set a min IQ score of 130 + to qualify for gifted services. This county does not. The only qualifier is the min score to get the student into the "pool". That is why many student who qualify for the "pool" do not make it into AAP. That is why kids with 130+ WISC scores do not get into AAP.

You are equating FCPS not having a minimum score for automatic enrollment as equaling the county has a designated number of spots. That isn't correct. Kids with WISC of 130+ may not get in because there is nothing else to support that the child should be admitted, just like a single high score on one of the achievement tests also doesn't guarantee admission. Your kid was in a class of 35 because your child was in grades 4-6 - and the max for those grades is 35 (OR your child was in 3 and kids were added after the school year was underway.) They aren't having 34 in your kids' class to fill spots.

Are you sure about that? That being there are no 'fixed slots'?

I'm of the other opinion on the opposite end of this - there are many schools with LLV programs, and maybe even some newly started centers, where the county is not maximizing the teacher:student class size ratio as allowed by law.

So let's say they're allowed 35 per class but the AAP class is only 20 kids. Makes sense, financially, for FCPS to put more kids into the AAP system in order to fully leverage their teaching expenses. With the expansion of LLIV, it will be easier to get into AAP and not less easy.

If you have a 100 person 2nd grade class and LLIV services for 3rd grade, AAP will be the top 20% of the class and not the top 10% or else you're bleeding money. I would guess that the average ES around here has about 100 students in 2nd grade, maybe even less.

Yes, I'm sure. That's why at our school the base program (fourth) has low 20s for enrollment and the fourth grade AAP has 33.