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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just found out that a kid who stayed back at the local ES and had decent scores, but not nearly as high as my CES kid (about 20 point MAP-M difference, lower CogAT), got accepted to TPMS.  There are other kids in my DC's CES who had the same or similar scores to the local kid (so other student at CES may be in "cohort" with local kid), so I really want to know why that kid was sent to the magnet as an "outlier," but my kid, who was an outlier among the [b]CES kids heading to the same middle school[/b], was not?

No one will provide data on how "cohort" was defined for students presumably denied entry to any CES, who were recommended for local magnets, and presumably were rejected for that reason.[/quote]

This happened to my kid last year as well.  I'm sorry, I know it's frustrating not to understand the process.  There really is no explanation for how MCPS differentiates among the kids they do let into the magnet, for certain groups and certain schools. The way you have to think of it is that being selected to go to a magnet does not mean that a certain kid is an outlier compared to your child.   Your kid is being told he is not an outlier, given the large cohort at his school, but that doesn't mean the other kid from your home middle school that got invited is an outlier.  The various tests being used are not meant to differentiate among the 99th percentilers, or maybe even the 97-99 percentilers, and so MCPS is simply picking almost at random among the large group of qualified kids.  I'm saying at random because MCPS doesn't have that much information to differentiate among the UMC kids, without special needs, from a school with a large cohort of qualified kids - there's no application, no essay, no teacher recommendations -- they just have the various test scores.   Good luck if you decide to appeal.    [/quote]

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