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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can anyone point me to a site or pdf whereby MCPS breaks down the number of applicants and acceptances to the lottery and criteria-based high school magnets? Any chance they’re also transparent on the feeder middle schools as well? Looking for tangible data. Thanks. [/quote]

For criteria-based HS magnets, they determine selections heavily by GPA and MAP scores, and try to find a reasonable balance in numbers between the feeders. So, a low FARMS MS will have a lower cut-off for consideration than a W HS feeder, where you have a good number of straight A 99%ers. When you have a large pool of the latter kinds of students, the application essays help differentiate. It's basically a nebulous process by definition, so difficult to quantify. Lottery is just that, a lottery. Presumably you can look up the number of seats; the number of applications will vary in a given year.  [/quote]

Yes, they don't want to release data because some parents of high-stats kids who don't get in will freak out whey they see kids admitted with lower scores. Many of us understand there are significant differences in opportunity depending on zip code, and in prepping and tutoring. But those more nuanced considerations wouldn't be clear in the numbers. There will be lots of screaming about "merit," as if that's a totally objective and quantifiable thing.[/quote]

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