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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I really wish mcps had made a concerted effort to administrated the COGAT, I feel that would have given my child a better chance for acceptance into the magnets, instead of this lame lottery system.[/quote]

They do have to qualify for the lottery.
Even if they had administered COGAT I bet they would have used a lottery.[/quote]

To qualify for the lottery a student needs to score higher than 80% on MAP testing....that’s like 3/4 of our school, if not more. That’s is no way as good as qualifying based on good COGAT SCORES.[/quote]

You're just plain wrong. They could set the "good Cogat SCORES" at 80 percentile and above, or some other similar fashion, and we'd be right back to the same debate. In fact they could require x-percentile MAP OR x-percentile Cogat and that could create an even larger lottery pool.

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DP here. or they could do what they did previously and have universal screening process and then pick the children with the highest cogat scores, and completely eliminate the lottery pool. What a concept! those who deserve it would be those with the highest scores.[/quote]

Highesr scores aren't necessarily an indication of those who "deserve it." Lots of parents enrich to enhance test scores.  I liked the old system that included essays and teacher recs. Seemed more holistic.  [/quote]

Really? It asked eleven-year-olds what awards they won and required a lot of adults to do a lot of work on behalf of each application. Do you really think a bright kid from a high-Farms family has had as many recommendations and extracurriculars as a Takoma Park princeling?

What you all should lobby for is equal access for all gifted kids who need the harder classes. But then the programs would lose the exclusitivity... You know, what you"re complaining that they don't have now?

Congratulations! You have the worst of all worlds now 
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