Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Identification, Testing & Assessment Any body waiting on DYS appication?

Congrats and thanks for sharing the good news!

Congratulations, Jamie B and HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

Congratulations OntheGoMom!

Thanks guys

Jamie,

I pm'ed you

Congratulations Jamie B and OTGmom!
What a relief!
Grinity

Congrats to the new DYS inductees!

I can't wait to hear the update on that school issue, too! (I've been lurking for awhile now. )

I have a question for you all. We are new to all of this, and we just found out last month that our ds (turned six yesterday) is in that >99.9% group. I think we've decided to go ahead and apply to the DYS program. What I'm wondering is if anyone knows if some children fail to qualify for DYS, even if their test scores are easily within the acceptable range.

When I look at those app. questions, and the fact that our ds has had all of two months of school (homeschool kindergarten!), I'm not sure what to put down for answers to the application questions. They seem to be for older children, or SUPER-DUPER advanced children who are doing chemistry in the basement at four. (Ours just brings red ants into the house for an ant farm, or turns the swimming pool into a frog "life cycle experiment.")

Congrats again to all!

I don't know much about it but I think that if they have qualifying scores that's a really good indication that they'll get in. My DS certainly isn't doing chemistry in the basement and because he's my only one I still think of a lot of the things that he does as "normal". Knowing what to include in the portfolio was harder for me than doing the application.

Congratulations Jamie!

Mom2MrQ don't let the application intimidate you. Yes, there were a few children who had both scores in the 99.9% and the parents were asked for more information (portfolio), but chances are quite good that your child will be accepted at the 1st attempt. Good luck.

We just went through this process a couple of months ago (testing in September, application in October, acceptance in November, starting to have access and such in December).

I was also extremely intimidated by the questionnaire. I did also see that some of those questions would be easier to answer for an older child. My advice is to simply start. Jot down some ideas. Dh and I did that, we had printed the questions and just took some notes. Once I started to actually type, it became easier. We just wanted to show a picture of who our Dd is; and once we got into that groove it was easy to go.