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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am very confused after reading all these messages. My son was recommended for Takoma Park and while he always scores 99% in MAP and gets straight A's, his cogat MCPS percentiles weren't as impressive (70's and 80's). We are Causasian in a W-feeder. Not sure why he was selected, to be honest, after seeing the scores for the kids who were not recommended.[/quote]

Maybe he didn't have a cohort in the "lower" range.  [b]The info session specifically said that they'd take lower band scores and leave behind higher bands if the cohort numbers said so[/b].[/quote]

Did not know that MCPS actually has specifically said that!

If true, that would explain the following:

A friend's DC was admitted to TPMS and Eastern. He was gobsmacked - his kid was from a very high achieving cluster, with lots of rejected advanced kids in the home MS because of the peer group criterion. Based on just the numbers - remember MCPS has removed any subjectivity - the kid should not have gotten in. He was afraid that may be his kid was mistakenly considered outlier among outliers by MCPS, while he knew that not to be the case, and may not do well in the magnet program.

Another friend's DS was rejected; this kid was very tight with two classmates who were admitted. His friends refused to believe that he was rejected until he showed them the letter - since they were all exchanging scores, etc. and knew that the rejected kid had better scores!
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How can that be true? Are you saying, from the same home MS, they choose lower score kid over higher score kid? [/quote]
Why does that surprise you? Didn't they say they are using 'holistic' approach? That's exactly what that means, choosing lower scores but some other 'holistic' criteria over higher scores.[/quote]
What does "holistic" to a MS magnet involve?  [b]This is BS.[/b][/quote]
Exactly! But this BS is also used in elementary magnet selection, as well. [/quote]

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