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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Where is it documented kids need to be in 99th percentile on MAP?[/b]  I read it here all the time. Are there any publicly available documents on this?  Also, any info on CogAT score needed?  Thanks![/quote]
Not documented - anecdotal data gathered from many, many admitted students. However, you can work out the numbers pretty easily. Those MAP percentiles are national and MCPS students perform way above the national norm. There are ~12,000 students per grade level, just 99% of MCPS would be 1200 students and let's guess twice that number are 99% nationally giving 2400 possible students at 99%ile. That's way more seats than there are (I've lost track - estimating 2 classes of 25 at 10 schools is 500 seats).

The one consistent thing said by MCPS for the CES programs (formerly HGCs) has been that they are for students whose academic and social needs cannot be met at their home school. In other words - they are outliers. If the home school has "enough" students (5? 10? 20?) then the home school should be able to program for them. This happened with a cohort for one of my kids. There were about 10 really strong kids of the caliber that usually ended up at one of the HGCs and parents speculated that the whole group would go. Nope. Just 2 kids instead of the usual 5 or 6. Why? The remaining 8 were all in class together and the teacher developed extended lessons for them.[/quote]

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