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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So sick of people's false assertion that [b]universal testing resulted in the selection of the best and brightest[/b]. If true, that would mean only a minuscule number of best and brightest are from Bethesda-Chevy Chase and Potomac. A more even split sure, but a minuscule number is not plausible. MCPS won't release the median scores of admitted students, as they've always done, for a good reason. Tippy-top scores were not they criterion--geographic diversity as a proxy for race (which didn't work out as well as MCPS had hoped), and  evidence of brightness were. Very few of even the self-reported scores on DCUM were straight 99%ers in all metrics, unlike scores of "peer cohort" rejectees, most of whom also had the advantage of the rigorous CES curriculum to prepare them for the MS magnets. [/quote]

Universal testing allowed ten fold the applicants into the pool this year which in the past was limited to a few kids whose parents nominated them. The selection was far more competitive and yielded more qualified students than ever before. Most parents complain because they can no longer easily game the results of this system the way they did in the past which mostly guaranteed their children admission.[/quote]

That makes no sense but yet you keep saying it month after month.

Just cuz Harvard law school will take 10k universal auto-apply applicants instead of 4k deliberate applicants doesn’t mean anything. If anything it means the selection committee doesn’t get much time spent on them.  It does however serve affirmative action goals, esp of hiding any actual criteria or cutoffs for final admittance. Just leave it fuzzy and mysterious. This will just push more top MCPS students to private high schools. And MCPS can continue its deterioration.[/quote]

So you say.  In real life there are now many more students in magnet versions of courses at their home middle schools than students in the actual MS magnets.  The peer group dynamics and qualifications are just fine.  With this change, the MS are meaningfully better than last year for
families with strong academic values.   [/quote]

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