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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It would be interesting to hear from other clusters aside from Cold Spring as to what their admissions results are?  Having said that, I think Cold Spring was hit the hardest -- i.e. to go from ~25 kids being accepted in years past to 2 is drastic no matter how you dice it.[/quote]

Next year parents should prepare their kids more for the application process and testing. The magnet program will only get more competitive as more people find out about it. At least 2 students were prepared from CS.

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You've missed the point of the changes. the change was trying to take the prep out of the process as CS parents (generalization of course) have historically prepped their kids the most.  There also is no application process to prep for now -- no essays, no activities, no awards, no teacher recs. So, the whole thing seems counter productive to its intentions of dealing with the idea that testing was biased towards certain groups (white/Asian) because now all that is left is the test!  What can they do? I guess use region to try to even things up? Seems a shame to ditch all that other data.[/quote]

Are you a Cold Spring insider to know this?  Did you take a poll of the kids?  Seriously, I am a Cold Spring parent and these kinds of generalization disappoints me.  Yes, we have heard of a few kids prepping but for the most part this does not ring true, unless prepping means you read with your kids daily.[/quote]

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