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[quote=Anonymous][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]
What is non-transparent?[/quote]

Not having raw data matters. Cogat is an IQ test. The difference between a 130 and a 155 test score is significant, but MCPS will not release that data. [/quote]
OK, but what difference is that data going to make given it doesn't tell us anything about a particular student's differentiation from their local peer group? Are you just looking for proof that MCPS is selecting students with lower Cogat scores over students with higher ones where a local cohort exists? If so, isn't that unnecessary given that MCPS has explicitly told us they will be doing that?[/quote]

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