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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, someone needs to get in given that they want every school represented in the centers. Raw scores in this are arguably more meaningful than a few points higher on MAPS.[/quote]

That's it. Someone does need to get in, from each school, and it is all nice and dandy, I just refuse to buy their slogan about 'peerless outliers'. We've known these children since K, they all are in the same ballpark, achievement- and ability-wise. No one of them has solved Fermat's last theorem.

What enrages me the most in all of this is total lack of transparency, covered by in-your-face BS. If they'd just said they were taking top 3 highest achievers from each class, with raw scores given the highest weight in the decision-making, followed by MAPs, followed by Inview results, followed by each child's involvement in school activities (or should this one be moved up?), followed by yesterday's star alignment, that would give parents a realistic prognosis on where their child stands. Instead, they feed you this 'peerless outlier' crap and expect you to eat it up. Don't insult my intelligence, ladies.

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PP, I felt some of your same emotions during the MS magnet admissions, when my extremely high scoring kid was rejected and other UMC kids going to the same middle school were accepted.   What helped a little was when someone pointed out that MCPS is not saying that everyone accepted is an outlier.  They are simply saying that your kid is not an outlier.  That's very different.   There are very few outliers, if you think about it.  MCPS doesn't have enough information about UMC kids with no special needs to determine whether a certain 99% kid is an outlier compared to another 99% kid - especially for the CES process, with only the COGAT screening test given.  You might know your kid is an outlier compared to other kids, but the MCPS selection committee wouldn't really have known.  While parents now know the raw COGAT scores, I don't think the MCPS selection committee had that data (at least they didn't for the MS admissions).  So among the UMC kids from high performing schools, it was essentially a lottery.  The only real "outliers" are kids at lower performing schools, where maybe there is just one or two 99 percentilers compared to the rest of the class, or situations where  a kid who got 92% but dealt with FARMS status and other adversities gets a boost.   And this same reasoning applies to all the other metrics they used in the process, not just the COGAT.

Anyway, I sympathize with your frustration.  It's hard to not get what you want for your kid.  I suggest supplementing, and spending lots of time on extracurriculars like sports and music to develop the brain in other ways.  [b]With a high school kid now, I see that the younger years were the times to put in all the hard work on that kind of stuff, because by high school there are so many other demands on a kid's time.[/b]   [/quote]

Wise response, and I particularly agree with the bolded. I have a middle schooler, and I see that he has developed critical thinking skills and work strategies that a lot of his peers don't have, [b]because he worked hard at them in elementary - without the benefit of CES or magnets.[/b]

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What is his secret then? What did he work on to develop such skills that his peers didn't have? [/quote]

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