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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I thought this thread was about 4th grade?!?[/quote]

Ok, here's a question.  Now that universal screening was done for CES entrance, will this year's MS magnets draw more from the CESs than they did last year?  [/quote]

This year’s middle school magnet selection will still be drawn from students who were selected for CES via parent application.  This year’s 4th graders were the first to be selected via universal screening in the TPMS/Eastern magnet area.[/quote]

Ah, ok, thanks.

So next year...it seems that the CES schools will be graduating exactly the candidates that meet MCPS's new profile of who most deserves/needs the MS magnets.  There will be some new arrivals to MCPS who won't have been tested yet, and some who turned down a CES offer but now want a MS magnet, and a few who somehow vastly out or underperform on the MS entrance criteria compared to what they presented at the CES level.   Even so mostly one would expect the universal MS candidate process to mostly end up with the same candidates it had previously identifed as worthy of CES.  Yes yes, some distortions due to application of the "cohort" scheme, but still.     So relatively more of the "outliers" will come from CES pool next year than from the CES pool last and this year?  It is hard to imagine being with an academic cohort in a CES for two years would do anything but make DC more of an outlier, right?   So are we in a funny 2 year hiccup as the Metis report plan gets implemented? [/quote]

That would be my guess, that there will be more kids from the CES pool getting in to the MS magnets.
I don't think that changes the debate over whether this new admissions process is better, or is ruining the magnets.
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Remember that this year's 5th graders at the Drew and Fox Chapel CES programs were selected through universal screening (pilot program), so we may see some effects from that this year. But it may be hard to judge, since I'm unaware of previous data breaking down middle school admissions from each individual CES.  On the other hand, there have always been more qualified/able children than available  CES seats, so I would assume that there are still many highly able students not in a CES, even with universal screening.[/quote]

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