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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Although nobody knows what they did, it seems likely that they had a similar number of seats per home MS as previous years to ensure that kids even at less wealthy schools have a strong peer cohort and since there is a well documented correlation between affluence and test scores it's a safe bet.[/quote]
I would tend to agree that it would be multiple lotteries for seats set aside from each feeder MS. How they set those seats aside? Who knows, but my suspicion is that they would just set aside a fixed number like 5 from each of the 10 or so MSs that feed into Eastern/TPMS.[/quote]

This.
It's unlikely they didn't balance for middle school or elementary. This is not the same as using cohort. This is about making sure each elementary or middle school is represented.

In the past they used cohort by middle school and representation by elementary so they were two different layers of the selection.[/quote]

Do you know this for a fact or is it just speculation? If so can you provide a link?[/quote]

Nobody knows anything.  Guess why?  Because the district keeps it a secret.[/quote]

We know they selected applicants using a lottery from a pool. Students were likely selected for and from the pool by home MS cohort. [/quote]
And this is where it gets tricky. Because if it is one pool, then there is a good probability that a random lottery could lead them to select a class of 90 boys and 10 girls or 95 white and 5 non-white, etc. These results would be untenable. Therefore, they would need to try to create backstops to decrease the random chance of these outcomes occurring.[/quote]

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