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[quote=Anonymous]There certainly have been posters who say they have knowledge of the process and this is not true.  It seems everyone is working on anecdotal evidence and possibly nothing more than what they construe from this forum.

I've heard people claim the quality of the home school is considered (basically OPs premise, W school student are at a disadvantage because they have a better fall back position).  But this really makes no sense, if for no other reason, that would be the selection committee, MCPS, admitting HS clusters are unequal.  I'm willing to believe this isn't happening.

The other claim I've heard is something more vague to the effect of if a student really [i]needs[/i] to be in the magnet, they will be.  Some people hear this to be the same as the first claim.  But I take it to be something more like, the extremely socially awkward science obsessed kid might be placed in the magnet even if their score is borderline, because they need the support of a magnet and just couldn't survive emotionally at a regular HS.  No one seems to articulate this clearly and for that reason alone it would seem hard for a selection committee to either have this as a stated goal or to have a mechanism to identify such students if it were.  Nonetheless there seem to be posters who believe this happens, and whenever they make these vague claims, it causes confusion.  Still, if this does happen it is a fair target for discussion, because it would mean between two students with good but not exceptional scores, the more socially maladjusted would win out.
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