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? who says it's more equal?  A lot less highly able students got in this year?  Is that "more equal"?[/quote]

How do you know a lot less highly able students got in?  How do you know the scores of everyone who got in?  [/quote]
Why is MCPS hiding the median test scores of accepted students when they never used to before?  If this wider net is really working, and it proves that those URM are just as able, then wouldn't that be reflected in part by their high test scores?  And if so, then wouldn't MCPS want to publicize it to show how the wider net is really working?

But they aren't so what are they hiding?  Are they afraid that by showing the median test scores of accepted students it would clearly show that students with much higher test scores didn't get in, and that the overall median test scores of accepted students went down compared to previous years?  If this is not the case, then why wouldn't MCPS show this information?

And you can say that one single test shouldn't determine ability, which may be true, but then why not show the score?  What purpose would it serve, you might ask? It would give the parents an idea of where their child scored  in relation to others. Why can't that be transparent? We can get access to MAP and PARCC scores of the school, cluster and MCPS as a whole, but not for the magnet tests? MCPS publishes AP, SAT, ACT tests of its student body, but not magnet tests?   Why not?[/quote]

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