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MCPS's own statistics shows which group has high test scores and which don't.  Apply probability and statistics to the numbers.  If the admittance breakdown to magnets is out of whack with MCPS's own statistics, then that means they are not accepting top performers, and indeed, MCPS has admitted that they look at peer cohort. There is no question about this fact.[/quote]

But that's not true if there truly is a deficit of seats compared to highly qualified students.  If, for example, you have 100 Asian students evaluated and 20 score at whatever your target threshold is (99% or whatever raw score) and you have 100 of some other race evaluated and only 5 score at your SAME target threshold, but you have 10 seats in the program, you can offer those seats to the 5 students of some other race and to 5 of the Asian students and everyone admitted will have met the same threshold for high performance.  There will just be 15 Asian kids who also met the same threshold but didn't get admitted.  And if those 15 all go to the same school, they will hopefully be a peer cohort in class with each other encouraging each other to excel.  Obviously no real life situation is as simple as a stripped-down example, but if there are not enough seats for all of the highly able students (which everyone seems to agree is the case) then it is entirely possible for the student body selected not to mirror the racial percentages of the entire pool (either of MCPS students or of MCPS students who score X on any particular metric) and for each admitted student to still be eminently qualified and not erode the quality of the program at all.  [/quote]
? you just made the argument for me regarding "peer cohort" vs individual performance, and that [b]they are using location as a proxy[/b] for race.[/quote]

Where did you get your information? Do you have a credible source inside the Central Office?[/quote]
Why did MCPS put most of the magnets in the lower income (and predominately URM) schools if not because of using location (and race) as the reason?

If MCPS can use location and race as a qualifier for putting in magnets programs in those places, why wouldn't they use location/race as a qualifier for students to be admitted in those magnets?[/quote]

Great question, why aren't there more HGCs and magnets east Georgia Ave? Tons of population there and given terrible commute traffic this would be warranted. Why? What's going on here.

- WDC looking for a new home. [/quote]

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