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I honestly don't think the caliber of MCPS magnet programs is suffering. I think that is a gross exaggeration and I'm not sure what you are basing it on.[/quote]
This is the first year of the change, so you won't see the change immediately, and MCPS will never admit it either.[/quote]

conjecture.  but I supposed you will believe what you want.[/quote]
Have you ever had a kid in HGC? I have, and I can tell  you that a big part of the HGC is the cohorts, the caliber of the peers. Even if the standards within HGC curriculum doesn't change, I can tell you that if the students there are not as high caliber, the caliber of the program will change. And the only ones who suffer are the "highly gifted" kids who really do need such a program.  I don't need to make any assumptions to realize this.  [/quote]

Who says the caliber of student will not be as high?   [/quote]
What does "broaden the definition of highly gifted" mean to you?[/quote]

It means "broaden the definition of highly gifted". The admissions process was previously based on teacher recommendations and that one test that was probably the CogAT. Now they're looking at more information -- MAP and PARCC scores, for example. [/quote]
And if that is the case, then great. But MCPS hasn't stated that.  No one really knows how MCPS defines it.

And I highly doubt that there would be significantly more URM based solely based on those other standarized tests given that they typically as a group don't score very high on such tests.[/quote]

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