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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I doubt it will be on the transcripts.  Juniors and Seniors families would revolt.  Maybe a couple of years from now they could consider that.  But for right now it would be a bad decision.[/quote]

But Op is right that some schools require it for seniors for first quarter.  I had a friend whose school sent that out to the ED school without even telling the kid before hand.  I’m sure some kids are gojng to be surprised by this.  They should have been more clear about this.  Well know for next year I guess.[/quote]

I wonder how this will impact magnet admissions, since they look at Grade 8 MP1. For those who say "everyone gets As," it's now going to be much easier to see if an A is a 90 or a 99.[/quote]

My [i]completely unofficial[/i] (not an MCPS EE) understanding is that, previously, the various admissions committees got to see some other columns on the report card. (Maybe the little-used class participation column? Maybe the Honors/GT/HS-credit designation columns?  One has to assume they didn't show the teacher name column, since that would tend to identify the MS from which the applying student would be coming, which is supposed to be forbidden.)  If so, the number score now reported for this past quarter also might appear (or not, depending).

This was only for the "relevant" subjects to that magnet (e.g., Math & Science for the criteria-based Engineering or SMCS, to go along with MAP-M; English & Social Studies for the criteria-based IBs, Poolesville Humanities or Blair CAP, to go along with MAP-R; etc.).  They stopped providing the full student academic profile to the magnet committees a couple of years back.

Maybe there's an admissions committee member at one of the magnets on DCUM who could enlighten us as to that prior practice (i.e., what they got to see from the report cards).  Of course, there's no guarantee that MCPS central upper management decides to keep things as they were.[/quote]

That might make selection more robust if so.  Now the only number the committee has is a single MAP-R or MAP-M.[/quote]

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