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OP here. Exactly that us my point. When a student from so called 'W' has performed way and beyond all through the seventh plus first sem eighth grade, very good recommendations not only from home school but from others too, has shown excellence not online in academics, and did not make in the first 100, but is still under consideration, the factors that weigh in are - is this student going to be ok in home school which is consider done of the very good high schools in mont county or another student with an equally good record or even a little less but from a home school which does not have a good rating in the county should be considered if there are any slots that might open up. This is first hand experience of parents who are NIH / govt/ DC officials with high education and from the neighborhood boundaries of Kensington/ Silver spring/ north Bethesda regions of this county. [b]My point is that why there is a regional/high school bias on selection of kids to STEM program of magnet schools. [/b]Why the merit can not be determined based only on the magnet test score and /or the combined report card of sixth and seventh grade. Why to bring in race/ region/ gender/extra curricular activities/ other certifications and even the recommendations to determine the top 100. Why the county doesn't assign some slots for sports/ race/ school boundary based categories apart from the top 100 to bring diversity. How magnet is a magnet if so many other factors that the academic merit decides who gets in. [/quote]

Maybe you should first establish that there is such a bias. You haven't done that.[/quote]

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