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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It seems like this year they try to recruit equal number of students from every elementary schools. It’s easier to get in from local schools than from CES.

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Yes - For advanced learners, the probability of getting admitted to MS magnets seems to be better if they stay in their home ES instead of CES.

Statistically speaking, none of the changes should disproportionately affect CES students, for any given home middle school. But that has not been the case. For example, I know a few parents whose kids got into MS magnets from non-CES schools; they were happy of course, but were also wondering how, since their friends from CES with better scores and going to the same home MS did not get in. The home middle schools (NBMS/Cabin John) were considered to have a peer cohort. We are talking about kids who have the same home ES and home MS, and same SES, no IEP, etc. This was the first year of implementation, when almost nobody was admitted initially from Barnsley and Cold Spring. (I think something similar happened last year too.)

If there was any doubt that this process is a crapshoot, here was the clincher: That year (first year of the new admissions process), there was a meeting at Carver (in spring, after the results were announced) where the MCPS official explained how they have eliminated subjective measures (such as recs.) and made the process objective.

Having an objective process is a double edged sword - it becomes very easy to see through the charade.[/quote]

This is a great example of using old and anecdotal data to make an invalid, current point.  Quit trying to make yourself feel better and others bad by calling it a crapshoot.  MoCo has made very clear what it is trying to do.  You may not like it, and maybe your kid was disadvantaged, but that doesn't make it a charade or crapshoot.[/quote]

Np. I think the other PP's post was very thoughtful and we are seeing the same thing this year. Kids at CES with higher scores getting waitlisted while the two kids from home school got in with significantly lower scores. Making on judgment on whether this is good or bad but these are the facts. It does look like they tried to take a few from each school and limit the number from the CES.[/quote]

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