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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it's pretty clear that since they eliminated teacher recs and the test this year, that there was a lot of jury-rigging of the admit pool to intentionally make it more diverse.  Lack of diversity in magnets has been a sore spot within MCPS for years, and with the pandemic, they had a good excuse to eliminate the objective test.  While that actually seemed reasonable, it was unconscionable to also eliminate teacher recs.  Basically they had carte blanche to just intentionally choose incoming classes based on diversity. When you remove the actual distinguishing criteria (test and recs), you're left with criteria that lots and lots of students match (tons of MS students have straight As), so sure, out of all those students, it's easy to social engineer.  Basically this year's applicants got shafted.

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Totally!!![/quote]

Yes, but that means that admissions to colleges for this cohort will be below expectations --&gt; not worth the commute anymore, especially for students who live along 270 in stronger HS school districts.

Folks, magnets are done, and I have a student who just graduated one.  I have no plans to send my younger child to Blair Magnet anymore.  It was nice while it lasted.[/quote]

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