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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What about students attending non-MCPS schools that don't conduct standardized testing? Those kids are injured - you can't provide one set of children an opportunity to excel (MAP, reading level) without a reasonable accommodation (private student submits SSAT, etc)?

What about parochial students attending ADW schools? Same injury. Will MCPS accept Scantron scoring/percentiles as part of review?

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MCPS acknowledges this issue in the letter: "Students with incomplete  data  and  private/home  schooled  students  will  be  considered  in  the  review." [/quote]

But being considered doesn't remove the injury. The injury arises from utilizing disparate evaluation criteria across the admissions pool.

MCPS kids with high MAP scores are being given an opportunity to excel in admissions screening that is not afforded to non-MCPs kids with similarly high Scantron/SSAT scores. [/quote]

I don't disagree with your point but I don't think MCPS really cares. If you look at the admissions data for the last 3-4 years, on average, less than 10 non-MCPS students are admitted to each criteria based program. I suspect that the number of non-MCPS applicants is not significant each year.[/quote]

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