Normally it wouldn't even matter but our district has rigid cut-offs/policies and they want both achievement AND IQ (if you can call a CogAT "IQ" which you really can't). And to make matters worse someone told me that they are thinking about eliminating "non-verbal" scores and just looking at verbal and math. They seem to want high-achievers, not "visual spatial learners". They don't care if kids can solve a puzzle in 5 seconds. That's not going to help in language arts or math classes (according to them). All of this is just speculation at this point, I'm trying to piece together various comments that I've heard and figure out what my options are. Luckily DS is very strong in math and has high reading achievement scores as well but I'm guessing they will want everything to "match" nicely and want a good CogAT or WISC verbal score.
