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[quote=Anonymous][quote]yea.. this one poster proves that they didn't lower the threshold.

No one said it was dumbed down because of universal testing. No one thinks universal testing is a bad idea. Get that through your thick skull. It's the lowering of the threshold for admittance that people are lamenting. And no, one high score posted on here doesn't prove a thing.

You know what would prove it: if MCPS would publish the median test scores of admitted students, like they used to do.
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Not the PP this person was responding to, and maybe I just have a thick skull, but I'm confused as to why this person thinks the threshold was lowered given the regional nature of the CES program.

For as long as the regional programs have existed, kids have been compared against their peers at nearby schools. That does mean that it takes a higher score to get into some programs than others, but that's always been true.

It also stands to reason that the bar to get into a local program will be lower than the bar to get into a regional program, simply because the top 25 (or 50 in the case of PBES) are going to be marginally less high achieving than the top 10.

But even with all of that, I still don't understand why PP think the bar is lower this year for the elementary magnets. Other than testing more kids, there's no change. Kids are still being evaluated against their peers at their own school and nearby schools.

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