DD is in a program for "highly gifted" where they require CogAT composite scores over the 98th percentile plus math or reading above-level achievement scores that are around the 98th percentile (preferably both math and reading above the 98th percentile). DD's class is made up of 2/3 boys (and it's a large class--we're not talking 15 kids, I think it's 25-30). I think that the other classes are like that as well. Can anyone think of why this would be? Do boys do better on the CogAT in 2nd-4th grade (when most of these kids took it)?
I would have expected it to be the other way around, with more girls being the high achievers at that age, since they require high achievement scores. It just seems strange, and not particularly fair. They want to now do away with the non-verbal section of the CogAT, or at least not put nearly as much weight on it as the other two sections, and I wonder if the gender imbalance has something to do with it.
