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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]I is not hard for the committee to know which child is from a CES and which is not.  The report cards are different.  Kids from a CES have their Reading & Writing marked with an "ESP" in 4th grade, and Reading/Writing/Science/Social Studies marked with "ESP" in 5th. [/b] I have multiple kids who have or have not gone through the program.  Of course we don't know of every kids' scores but we know enough of those admitted into the MS magnets and those who did not, including my own.  There is NO DOUBT in my mind that MCPS tries to balance gender.  If you're a boy, you get a leg up in your admission to Eastern and if you're a girl, you get a boost into Takoma.  Also, MCPS also tries to balance the admission from the CES and non-CES kids into the middle school magnets.  We have seem multiple scores (across the board with PARCC, Grades, MAP, CoGat) higher by kids who is from the CES but did not get admitted but a slightly lower score by a kid at a non-CES (even at a W home ES) get admission.  So gender and CES status absolutely play into the admission equation.

There are too many sharp kids in this area, and MCPS really needs to consider opening these types of programs up.  Truly open it up and not just throw out the name without proper support.  The ridiculous MS enriched classes are not really enriched as at our home school, they let practically all the kids in it.  When you have 100% of the 6th graders in the "magnet social studies", it frankly cannot be enriched the same way.[/quote]

You are assuming the committee actually saw their report cards, and not just a grade for reading, writing and/or math on a grid with the other scores. Given the sheer number of students now considered for the programs and the fact this is done at MS (test Nov, decisions just came out), HS (test Dec, decisions coming soon) and ES (test Feb, Decisions March or April) I seriously doubt the committees are looking at individual report cards - there has to be a way they pull the pertinent data to one place to look at together. [/quote]

You keep talking about a grid, but there's no "grid." They individually review each applicant who makes it to a certain point in the process. They log in to a system and are able to see their student record with the names, schools, race and other information hidden.[/quote]

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