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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I really hope that parents of accepted kids don't bring this attitude with them to the magnet programs. I am picturing them [b]side-eyeing[/b] any black and hispanic 11-year-olds who they assume are unqualified.

It is absolutely the case that prior to this new admission procedure, tons of kids with uninformed parents or parents who don't speak English didn't know they were supposed to apply. Testing more kids means correcting for that problem. It doesn't mean admitting unqualified students. It means that the kids who used to be admitted were not the only qualified students out there.

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Well, certainly, I hope not, but if MCPS were more transparent about the admitted students then this wouldn't happen.

My DC went to HGC.  There were some black students, and no one gave them the side eye because this was before the METIS report, when they used to publish the score of the accepted median students.  [/quote]
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One way is that they stopped publishing the median test scores of the three categories of accepted students.   Why did they stop that?  Parent would be able to see where their child placed in regards to accepted students.   If the student's scores were much lower in all three areas compared to the median of accepted students, it's obvious why the student was denied. If it's lower in only one area, but higher in the other two, and was rejected, you might have the basis to appeal, or at least find out why your child was rejected.

The way it is no, you have no clue where your child falls, and so you have less reason to appeal.  IMO, that's why MCPS stopped publishing the test scores.
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