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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s not just the top 15 percent. They also have to have had all As in the prior year.[/quote]

That is not hard to do, particularly in ES.[/quote]

Disagree with you about it being so easy to get straight As in ES. My DC was admitted to TPMS a few years before the lottery system was implemented, with a B in their 5th grade science class. It was a class that met only twice a week, and where the teacher basically just gave them some  materials and said ‘do something with this.’ The teacher themself told me that a third of the class got a B, and this was at a CES. There is nothing wrong my DC’s science abilities. They got straight As all the way through at TPMS. I thank god every damn day that they were considered for TPMS under the old system, and feel terrible for kids under the current lottery system, who get knocked out if the lottery pool for getting a B in math or science, regardless of their other qualifications. [/quote]

The current system isn't a lottery but a lottery of the very top kids. It's probably more fair than the old system which was easily gamed.[/quote]

Pp here. My point is that it’s NOT a lottery of ALL the very top kids, if talented kids with a single B don’t even make the lottery pool. Under the old system there were five or six data points that were evaluated, and the MCPS materials noted very clearly that no one would be knocked out of the running for being low on a single criterion. 
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