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DP.. I think it's just looking at the numbers.

1. URM statistically score lower than Asian/white counterparts
2. there is a much lower acceptance rate among the students in the higher  Asian/white concentrated areas compared to years past
3. MCPS changed the way they look at students when determining acceptance
4. MCPS no longer provides the median test scores of accepted students (this is the case in CES, to my knowlege, not sure about MS magnet)

All of this makes it seems suspicious, and so parents would like more transparency in how MCPS is determining who gets accepted. Again, no one is saying that there aren't smart URM students in MCPS, but the stats show how the test scores  lay out among the groups.

If one claims that test scores shouldn't be the only thing used for magnet acceptance, then it goes back to the "holistic" approach argument, which usually means affirmative action of some sort.[/quote]

They don't admit average scores. They admit individual kids.

Also, MCPS has said that it's not only test scores. Haven't you read their FAQs?  It also wasn't only test scores under the previous admissions process. And it shouldn't be only test scores.

Here's your argument, boiled down: "My kid had high test scores. My kid didn't get in. This shows that MCPS is admitting undeserving black and brown kids with lower test scores." Yuck.

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If the test scores of URM are not going up year over year but their admit rate is going up year over year, then this indicates something is off. Could it be that many of those higher performing URM students weren't applying year after year?  Maybe.  If this is the case, and those kids are scoring really really high, why wouldn't MCPS tout this by publishing the median scores of the admitted students. Wouldn't it be great to see how the admitted students' median scores are great, and it just goes to show that their process is working?  Instead, they stopped showing those scores as if there is something to hide.

Yes, they admit individual kids not averages, but statistics have meaning. That's why METIS report used those stats, and MCPS used those stats to change the criteria.  What you are saying is "look at the stats to make it more equitable, but don't look at the stats when looking at who they admit'. [/quote]

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