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I think portfolio admission was more common before the specter of PG fraud loomed over the gifted community. Now they feel a need to have more "hard evidence" to support admission.

Understandable, but unfortunate. One one hand I would guess a truly PG kid would demonstrate that consistently, however, I wonder if some truly PG kids do better in a real world situation vs. testing environment. And then there are those who don't have access to testing for various reasons.