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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As per one of the forums here, 7300 kids out of 12000 kids in county have attended the Magnet Cogat test. does it mean that 73 kids have 99 percentile?
Will all these 73 kids will get into the magnet program?[/quote]

I think those numbers are wrong. I think there are 7300 5th graders and guessing about 4000 were tested. The 4000 number comes from last year.

Meaning about 1333 kids in each SES grouping and the percentiles are assigned by grouping. 13 99th percentile in each group or 39 in the county. But that assumes more of an even distribution. I think based on numbers I've seen before for high school that it's not an even distribution.

If there are lots of kids with the same score like if a whole bunch (10 percent of the total) got a perfect verbal score a perfect verbal score might only be 90th percentile. All of those kids would have gotten 90th percentile.
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Except that would be local percentile, which still hasn’t come out yet. They would all be 99th percentile nationally, which is what we have now. [/quote]
Agreed. Local percentiles are yet to be seen -- and I think those are the most interesting - while, nationally, 99% is not that hard of a bar to clear. [/quote]

I just feel lucky that DD crosses that bar. The FARM rate is above 40% for DD's school, so that would help, I guess. [/quote]

I just want to prepare you for all outcomes.  The first year they did the cohort thing (but they didn’t do the MCPS percentiles), my 99 percentile kid who barely missed any questions on Q and V and a few on NV, going to a school with 50 percent FARMS, was rejected from both magnets.  Not even waitlisted.[/quote]

Race?[/quote]

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