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[quote=Anonymous]I wouldn’t say this is a change in policy exactly.  Even before the pandemic, in the Es CES process prior to the pandemic, MCPS had said that every ES child would be tested and considered for CES.  This allowed admissions committees to consider children who they thought were bright but who hadn’t necessarily been “applies” by their parents for consideration.  Instead, parents who didn’t apply for their qualified kids might have just been notified of acceptance instead of encouraged to apply.  IMO, this is a bette process because it captures more eligible children and becomes an opt out instead of opt in process.  For a wide variety of reasons, opt in always privileges the more advantaged.

Thus, in the pandemic, when there was no equitable way to evaluate students by test, or by teacher recommendation, making the whole process a lottery was reasonable, IMO.

THe real question is what is the qualitative and quantitative result of a lottery admissions process?

Just as with colleges who made do without SATs last year, if a process undertaken without test scores or recommendations or opt in produces an equally capable student body that was capable of achieving at a similar level, that begs the question as to whether the process was necessary to begin with?
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