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    Wren #11432 03/13/08 10:35 AM
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    It would be interesting to know what the entry criteria for Drake's particular GT school would be and what kind of audience they were targeting?

    Hunter with their cut-off and entry process sounds like they are likely to get "very" PG kids. Although, interestingly Drake's son may not have been choosen because he wasn't lighting the world on fire before kindergarten. Nor mine for that matter. And when you are dealing with kids like that you would think and hope they would need to be extremely accomodating and flexible to truly serve that particular student body.

    Our GT magnet is somewhat flexible, but the majority of kids are MG, so I get the feeling that you still needing to do major advocacy if your child is more than MG. And if you accelerate, you are still in a class of MG kids perhaps averaging a full standard deviation or more from yourself.

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    Hunter had a 98 percentile cutoff on the SB this year (do not know if SB4 or 5). Then they do a 2 hour evaluation with each child, in small groups. I have known children who do not get in despite a 99% score.

    Once you get to evaluation, they do not look at the scores and choose on behavior during the evaluation.

    The public magnet gifted schools now have a 97% cut off on the OlSAT and they stopped the evaluations. Just because you get in the 97th percentile doesn't mean you get in. They are taking the top scorers and filling the spots in the 3 schools.

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