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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Were there kids who scored in the 99th percentile within MCPS (vs 99 percentile nationally). Who didn’t get in the magnets?  I don’t remember anyone like that posting when the results come out, but of course that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.  [/quote]

Yes absolutely.  My kid was at a regional CES and there were only 8 kid admitted across all three CES classes.  There were many really high scoring kids who did not get into the Magnet MS.

MCPS changed the MS Magnets around last year.  Instead of pulling just the highest scoring kids, they took lower scoring students who scored high relative to others at their lower performing schools.  In other words, a kid with an 89%ile score at a lower performing school would get in over a 99%ile kid at a school with lots of 99%ile kids.
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My kid was in the first year of the changes (2 years ago, a 7th grader now) -- that year, tons of 99 percentile (national) kids did not get into the magnets because of the new cohort rule.  There was no percentile score just considering the MCPS population. Last year, the reporting of scores changed again and some kids who got 99th percentile nationally received much lower scores when reported as an MCPS percentile -- e.g. in the 80's.   So you're saying that lots of kids that had a 99th percentile MCPS (not just national) score didn't get in?  I was hoping that the admissions process had changed a bit so that at least the 99th percentile within MCPS were mostly getting in, and then cohort rationale then filled out the rest of the class -- since the magnets can fit out 3% of the class.[/quote]

Yes.  That is the case.

And also many kids from the regional CES who were 99%ile kids and DID get in, chose not to attend for various reasons (commute, friends).[/quote]

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