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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]wow middle school magnet is a lot hard to get in !  3-4% [/quote]
Totally agree. I'm surprised! I have a now 6th grader and a now 8th grader. The data shows that when the younger one was applying to a CES (2018), those took about 12% of the considered students. But the older one applied that same year to the MS magnets, which in our area are TPMS and Eastern--each with <4% admitted. (It seems that the acceptance rate is considerably higher for the other magnets in different parts of MoCo (15%, 24%), but that doesn't help us). I guess my younger one (accepted to a CES) isn't more intellectually gifted than my older one (rejected from both MS magnets), even though their acceptance to/rejections from their respective programs may suggest different abilities on the surface. 
Thanks so much to the PP who posted this link--I'd never known this info.
It's interesting that after a very selective MS magnet phase (for TPMS and Eastern), the HS application programs then have a much higher acceptance rate, like 20%, as a PP noted. (and some even higher, like the Springbok and Kennedy IB programs (70% and 60%, respectively). Clearly if one is in a MS magnet it appears highly likely that he/she would be admitted to a HS magnet, unlike the winnowing down from CES to Magnet MS. 
However, it's unclear to me how many middle schoolers are taking the enriched Math & Global Humanities at the various MCPS middle schools and what % of the applicant pool they represent. The question on my mind is how much of a chance my 8th grader, who is in these classes in the home MS, has for the HS.

[quote=Anonymous]if you look at the table carefully, you will see the difference between MS/HS magnets applications/acceptance

For middle school (also elementary school as well)

It is the number of students[b] considered [/b]

For high school

It is the number of students [b]applied[/b]

That could explain partially the low admission rate for middle school magnet program and (even elementary school CES).

Even with high admission rate for high school magnets,  the selection is from those who believed to have a reasonable change to get into the program.

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But the CES was also "considered" and was 11%, so that somewhat undermines your argument. [/quote]

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