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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm really bothered by the propaganda that deflects away from the fact that they changed the criteria [b]not to get the most qualified students[/b] but to get the demographic profile of the students that they wanted. This is just wrong. Its been stated again and again that no one objects to universal testing, people object moving admission away from merit based and toward racial profiling. Yet again and again the MCPS PR booster will try to float in that the only change was universal testing. This simply isn't true and you should stop lying. [/quote]

That depends on how you define "the most qualified students", doesn't it?

The relevant factors for admission include your home middle school. MCPS has decided that students who don't have a cohort at their home middle school are more qualified for the middle school magnet programs than students who do have a cohort at their home middle school. This seems reasonable to me.[/quote]

Shouldn’t the outcome also be measured? Maybe SAT score is not a good one, but there must something to gauge the academical benefits of these programs with its various admission experiments. It does look right now MCPS deems any change successful as long as it reduces the Asian percentage.[/quote]

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