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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, plenty of kids are still getting in.
DD is at a different CES (different total number of students) and at least 6 kids were admitted so far. She's heard there are more but letters just came out in our area.

I do think that because of their goal of having every ES in the mix they are taking lower scoring kids if they are the top lower scoring kids at their school. [/quote]

Interesting- maybe they changed things from previous years because last year very few students seemed to initially get in from CES if they didn’t qualify for local preference. Maybe they decided to group CES students with kids in their home school, which would make a lot more sense...[/quote]

I don't think that's it. 
Remember this group is THE FIRST group that went through universal screening at some of the centers. (I think some were in a pilot for universal screening the year before but this is the first year where everyone went through it.) It stands to reason that there was a mismatch between last year's 5th graders who got in through the opt-in application process and the new universal screening of the MS magnet program.

But this year the kids in the CESes already went through universal screening to get to where they are. The MS magnets use a similar process as the ES process so it stands to reason that more of them will get in. I know MCPS is still trying to balance for gender, school, ESOL, FARMS so you'll still see fewer admits from the CES than two years ago when the MS process was opt-in but it should be not as bad as it was last year.[/quote]

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