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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Cold Spring High Gifted Center (HGC), the best HGC center in the county, the kids with highest scores of verbal, non-verbal reasoning and quantitative sections for the admission test 2 year ago, has 0 kid get accepted this year.  These kids with MAP-M over 260, 270 in forth grade, 290 in fifth grade, MAP-R over 240 in forth grade, 250 in fifth grade, Lexile reading score almost college-level, principle or assistant principle player in MCYO orchestras (pre or chamber), national athletic awards winner (swimming, badminton, figure skating, chess), math Kangaroo state and national winners, AoPs top points winners in Algebra I.  I have no any comments.  But, please don't use the so-called "getting TPMS or EMS tends to be more competitive than getting into HGC program" to make your point.  Getting into Cold Spring HGC is much more competitive than any other HGC program.

Although it is very disappointing, I think it is good to go away from such disaster selection process.  [/quote]

Think about it - this makes sense.  They looked at home school cohort - conceivably those kids will have many kids just like them at the home school and will be taught accordingly.  [b]What blows is that that curriculum is completely different, so they are missing out on the curriculum offered by Eastern/TPMS.  However, they will be excel at their home school where they can push [b]each[/b] [/b]other to do better.[/quote]

My child is just applying for a CES, but I have friends whose children went through a HGC when it was still called 'HGC', and, according to them, their kids studied vocabulary in 4th grade LA class using 6-grade level vocab textbooks. Now, if those children don't get into a magnet, they'd have to return to their home middle school and in their LA class they will have to face the same standard on-level curriculum they went through two years ago. Well, maybe, not exactly the same, but you get my drift. Pushing each other to do better might be a moot point, since there won't be too much 'pushing' needed.

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