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I think there are two scenarios. At some schools there may be clear standout students. The Cogat scores, which parents did not get but the school district definitely has, could be 99th percentile at 135 or 99th percentile at 155. In this case if both students had perfect grades and perfect scores in other admissions criteria you would take the 155 child. Given how rare that 155 kid is in the general population it's unlikely there were standouts at EVERY school. In some schools there may well have been a cluster of 20 nearly equal kids at the top. FARMS could have made the difference in this case but unclear what they did at schools where there are few FARMS students. Anecdotally, it seems pretty random.

In looking at DD's class there are a half dozen clear outliers based on information the kids share with each other about test performance. The rest are kind of clustered in the same 97th-99th percentile area similar to many kids at the home school taking the enriched classes in MS.

I think what you said makes sense. But I don’t believe this was the actual implementation. If this is the real case, why don’t MCPS report SAS instead of 99%? I remember MCPS rep said specifically all 99% were the same. Some other dcurbanmom posts cited the measurement error of SAS as reasons not to use them. It looks like people are not exactly evaluating the same policy as we have injected our own assumptions to fill out the information gap. [/quote]

You're partially correct. MCPS used the percentiles for the initial identification of "highly able" students. Then they looked at other parts of a student's records. We were told they did have access to the raw scores. MCPS did not report the SAS or median scores to parents because of this very problem we are having now with people trying to figure out how the system was unfair.[/quote]

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