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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread is cracking me up--it's so much like College Confidential around the time college decisions are released, down to checking UPS notifications to see what kind of package will be arriving.

Here are my kid's stats:

Cogat raw scores V55, Q47, NV 39 (the lowest I've seen on here), which translates to MCPS V97%, Q93%, NV79%, and national 99%, 99%, and 93% for a 99% composite (VQN).
Fall Map-M 249, Map-R 238.
5s on PARCC
All As

Recommended for both Eastern and TPMS.

White boy, high SES (Whitman feeder) ES, not CES.  No prepping.  Didn't realize he took the Cogat, and, in fact, never heard of it before we got the letter in the mail yesterday.  Had not considered the possibility of magnets, so this is all a surprise.

You know what's funny?  A lot of us will likely be at one open house or the other.  Should we have a secret DCUM sign, or would you prefer to pretend you've never even heard of this site?  [/quote]

There are so many layers of the admissions process (local norming, peer group, etc.) that I[b] think everyone forgets that MCPS consciously has been trying to make sure there's representation from each ES. In practice that means usually at least the 2 top scorers at a school will get in no matter how they compare with others in their SES band or peer cohort. The elementary schools where [/b]few people go to the CES are the most competitive. The elementary schools where many of the top kids go to the CES may be easier some years. I know at our CES there are some elementary schools that only sent 2-3 kids but others that sent 10 kids!

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I'm not so sure about representation from each ES. My child said they had the counselor's 'talk about magnets', and the counselor said that, in the past, 5 kids from our school got into a magnet, and last year nobody did. She was trying to make a point how competitive and unpredictable the admissions process is, but I do believe that, some years, the selection committee might completely pass a school up if it's within a certain SES level and no one really stands out there. I'm sure this scenario isn't statistically impossible.[/quote]

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