Boy, it was a bumpy road and a real learning experience for us because with my daughter’s easy enrollment, we didn’t realize how much effort parents needed to put in this. Please bear with me for this long story.
My son got 129 for CogAt and 143 for NNAT. But he was rejected because his GBRS rating was only 2. Being an active boy, he talked a lot in second grade, which led to some incomplete class work. We didn’t do a good job in communicating timely with his second grade teacher on improving his behaviors.
We had to act quickly because the appealing window was only one month. Right after receiving the rejection letter, we scheduled a meeting with his GT Specialist who was new to the school. She told us the work samples we submitted were not good but she didn’t communicate with us before the submission. We also found out that his second grade teacher was the only one that presented at the local GBRS committee meeting. My son did very well in first grade, but his first grade teachers didn’t attend the meeting.
We decided to appeal. Without much help from the local GT Specialist who scheduled a second meeting with us but cancelled it later on, we did a lot of research (I’ll talk about many useful sites we visited later) and decided to take the WISC-IV test with George Mason University.
On the testing day, he went in and out with a smiling face (he is always a happy kid), and finished half an hour earlier than the other kids. Waiting for his score was like a torture for us. In the meanwhile we prepared additional samples, taking pictures of some of his science projects and lego models. His WISC score turned out to be 130. We submitted the appealing package and started another long waiting process. Finally a letter at the end of June brought the good news that he got in! Whew, what a relief!
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