Not an expert on testing, but on freaky family logistics...
You say that testing remains valid for two years and I know that is the standard in the profession, but is it the schools policy? I'd make sure to get that in writing, together with the tests they will accept. And try to find out what will happen if you have to defer admission and the school changes their policy for some reason - will they be grandfathered in in case they have already been admitted? And what if they haven't, because you never got that far in the process?
I'm asking because it happened to us, and you have to go to much more trouble to get these results, so they better work for you when you need them to. (If the school is anyway like our public gifted magnet, the answer to all these question from frazzled mom may be "umm...". In the end, I told DS to just suck it up and take the (suddenly exclusively acceptable) group test at the publicly designated testing center, and bloody well make sure he passed the threshold, so no one else would be required to use their brains).
If you have as much confirmation as you can get that a 2 year old WPPSI will work, you could arrange for testing right away and get it over with.
All of this depending of course how much hassle the trip would be. Good luck with figuring it all out!
Last edited by Tigerle; 09/21/17 02:03 AM.
