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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is my current guess about what they did -- they took a lot of kids from schools where there wasn't going to be much of a cohort.  They still took some kids from schools where there was going to be a cohort (W schools, but also Sligo and SIMS in DCC, among others), because they wanted some geographic diversity, but they didn't take the top-scoring kids from those schools. I I say that because we still haven't heard of those 280 Map M kids getting in, and I know for a fact that some lower-scoring kids, on all metrics and from UMC backgrounds so they didn't have a dealing with adversity bump, at least got waitlisted at my kid's school and a few of them haven't heard yet so I assume that means acceptances.  I'd love to hear if my theory is wrong.

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Maybe, but...   The higher the score on MAP, the less reliable it is according to MAP.  So there's a zone where it's statistically reliable.  Beyond that, is not reliable.
 
There is also the possibility that as kids get older, targeting practice of expected test content has less effect.  Some, but less.

Also I'd guess there has been a presumption among many non HGC families that having kids in HGC meant no one else really had a chance at MS magnets.  This year appears to have been a large increase in the testing pool.  Invited to test was what, about 3,000 kids.   So seems probable more kids will match or exceed scores of HGC kids than when fewer tested.  Oh and change in test from past years so targeted preparation less of a factor in test results.  Just some possibilities....
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