If you are reading this, then you are a parent or a grandparent in New York City who is thinking about finding the best possible school for your little one. There are so many options in NYC – private schools, gifted and talented schools, general education; it can sometimes feel overwhelming, especially if your child is taking an IQ test or gifted and talented test at 4-years-old!
The language you hear around New York City testing sounds like a game of Scrabble – OLSAT®, BSRA®, Bracken, ERB, WPPSI™-III or IV, WISC™-IV, Stanford-Binet 4 or 5®, NNAT-2®, Naglieri®, New York City Gifted and Talented Testing - the list of acronyms and names goes on and on!
Perhaps you live in a school district where the best classrooms available are in the gifted program and everyone has their children tested before they even enter kindergarten. You might be applying your child to a competitive private school that requires an IQ test like the WPPSIâ„¢-III or IV as part of the application. Maybe you are very lucky and you live in an area with a wonderful zoned public school in NYC.
Perhaps you are thinking of sending your child to one of New York City’s excellent private schools or a sought-after public NYC gifted and talented programs like Hunter, NEST+M, Anderson or BSI. There are magnet and charter programs available, along with hidden publicly funded gems like The Special Music School. This guide advises you about the many school choices available in New York City, along with the tests required to qualify for them. In this ebook, we are going to focus on free Gifted and Talented programs you should consider for your child (yes, there are private G&T programs that aren’t free!).
 
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