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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also HGC in MCPS is very selective (top 3 to 5%) in their admissions, whereas FFX AAP admits top 10 to 15%.[/quote]

Correct, MCPS can only serve a tiny sliver of its huge population for gifted & talented. Fairfax offers more gifted seats per capita.

Furthermore, MCPS, a HUGE county (200+ schools, so many square miles they have 2 different weather forecast alerts), chose the magnet/Gifted program host schools politically. To increase overall school test scores. 
They are in more struggling school districts and neighborhoods and are a beltway traffic nightmare for 2/3s the country to get to/from.  Therefore, many gifted kids do not bother applying to the middle or high school programs, and the attrition out of the ES gifted program is high as kids not in SIlver SPring don't care for the 6AM and 6PM 1-2 hour bus ride.  it's tolerable for ES, but after that you are giving up a lot of your time and extracurricular options.

SO I would say big negative for MCPS. [/quote]

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