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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the central office did a really good job. For application based magnets, there is no cohort criteria like middle school.[/quote]

Just wonder why no cohort criteria for high school magnet ?  because high schools have AP courses while middle schools courses choice limited ? [/quote]

I think this is true. The HS already have way more enrichment options for anyone who wants to take advantage. [/quote]
But  now the MS supposedly have "enrichment courses" but they still have peer cohort criteria.[/quote]

[b]There are a lot more HS magnet seats than MS magnet seats.[/b][/quote]

So this paucity of MS Application Seats seems to be a major problem.  When my older DC went to Eastern HUM from the then HGC (Highly Gifted Center) in 2015, about a third the kids at that HGC went to Humanities, maybe 20% went to Takoma Magnet and then rest went back to home schools or Lottery Schools.  This year, when younger DC is going to Eastern HUM from CES (Center for Enriched Studies, new name for same program), only about 5 kids from program are going to Humanities and we know of only 2 or 3 going to Takoma Magnet.

I think the new system is spreading the kids who go to Middle School Magnets around schools more, and this could be a good thing.   But I see a lot of these kids could benefit from the Magnet Schools, and I wonder why we can't just have more programs.  Why not have a Magnet IB Middle Years programme applicataion based and have a Magnet that emphasizes both Humanities and Science/Math at the same time?  Why not have an application based arts or engineering program?  Giving more options at MS would be good all around, since these are the years that kids are likely to either find a passion in or lose interest in school.

What I told both my kids during the application processes they have gone through over the years is that there are far more kids that would benefit from these programs than there is room in these programs.  I believe that whole-heartedly.  The answer is to make the programs bigger or to multiply them.  
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Hard to argue for an application-only engineering program for MS when students are not opting to COSA into the existing aerospace science/engineering program.[/quote]

?? I know kids who applied but did not get admitted to the MSMC programs. MCPS has no problem filling the seats available for OOB kids in the MS magnet consortium.[/quote]

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