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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]TPMS actually got more than 25. They participated in the first 100 lottery, then the 25 reserved.[/quote]

Says who? Where do you get that info? TBH, I doubt there are many more than 25 in the pool looking at the numbers. Anyone here in bound for TPMS and in the pool but didn’t win the lottery? I don’t know of any. My own kid was in the pool and got a spot.[/quote]

I know several kids who were inbounds and in the pool and didn't get in, including one kid who was a wild outlier by any standards. It was just back luck, but it absolutely happens. [/quote]

Which year is this? [/quote]

The first year of the lottery at least I know there were several exceptional in-boundary kids that were passed over. It's the nature of lotteries. They don't guarantee that the most qualified are picked. [/quote]

My DC is friends with that kid. They were one of only 2 or 3 kids in their grade at TPMS to make the varsity math team. [/quote]

And that is why the lottery is one of the dumbest ideas that came out of MCPS.  [/quote]

The following year AEI placed that kid in the magnet. Maybe it was the wait list, I don't know... but I guess the system works.[/quote]

Not necessarily. I don’t know this particular kid, but AEI does look at peer cohort. If essentially all the other math oriented tpms kids got into the magnet (because, as others established, the odds are quite high for in bounds), this kid may not have had enough peers outside the magnet to provide a cohort. If this student were not in bounds, he’d never get a spot offered the following year, let alone a second look. So I wouldn’t say the system works. [/quote]

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