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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not a lottery.  This document is not the current admissions process.[/quote]

How exactly is the current process?[/quote]

They choose the top 1.5% of each middle school according to size, and then an additional overall top 100 students from any school.  It's not a lottery.[/quote]

The top 1.5% of only yields a bit over 200 across FCPS ([b]from the ~14k 8th graders[/b])... then the rest are done from a county-wide pool, but it's gotta be over half the class (i.e., ~500 total minus the ~200 from from the 1.5% method would mean ~300 are coming from the county-wide pool)[/quote]
there is big difference between 14k and 1.5k fcps students that apply. total 2.5k apply?[/quote]

Yes, it is a small pool. As much as people on this specific forum think the bar to apply is low, it is actually relatively high.

1) Students have to have completed Algebra 1 H by the end of 8th grade. Based on SOL scores, there were 8,315 students in 8th grade who took the Algebra 1, Geometry, and Algebra II. 
[b]2) Students have to take Honors or AAP Math and Science
3) Students have to take Honors or AAP Social studies or English[/b]
4) Students have to have a 3.5 GPA

There were 4,587 students in Math 8 in FCPS. None of those kids can apply. I have no clue how to look up average GPAs in MS but I would guess that the average GPA is under 3.5.

And then kids have to want to leave their friends and potentially communte 30-60 minutes in order to attend school. That is going to decrease the number of kids who are interested. [/quote]

Young Scholars have an exception.[/quote]

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