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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^If you have your heart set on a MS magnet I do think at least this year it was easier to get in from the non-CES schools. They tried to include a few from each elementary so if your child is the top at his home school it seems like she or he got in. At the CES, top kids were waitlisted left and right and according to DC's friends some of the non-CES kids scored lower than some CES kids.

Those higher scoring CES kids did get off the wait list later.[/quote]

They compared CES kids to other kids from their home elementary, not the CES class, and were looking at the cohort available in their home MS. CES does not change whether or not you get into MS magnets.[/quote]

There was a long discussion about this on the MS admission thread months ago and I don't think the answer was ever clear, as the MCPS material was ambiguous.  At any rate, I think it's safe to say that the MS admisions is pretty much a crap-shoot whether you're coming from the CES or the home ES, and also that the fact that the CES program is only 2 years, and only a very small minority (less than 10%?) of the CES kids go on to the the MS magnets, means that kids who go to the CES will be changing social groups twice in a three year period.  I have an outrageously extroverted child and my child is feeling a little stressed by the fact that they won't be with all their CES friends next year in MS.  I think for a kid that has trouble making friends, that can be really tough.  If your home MS is zone for your CES, I think that helps a lot and would be a big factor in my decision, if I was on the fence.  It seems like most of the kids at our CES are going to one of the two MS that are zoned for the areas closest to the CES.  Our MS is farther awy, and I think there are only 3 boys and 1 girl zoned for our MS from our CES.  I do think the social issues are one of the big reasons why someone might turn down an invite (in addition to all the logistical issues with busing and multiple pickups, etc.)  It was also kind of a bummer for me that I could do things like the Halloween parade at both my kids' schools, plus it wasn't well coordinated with events at other schools in our home cluster -- for instance, the back-to-school night at the CES was the same night as our MS, so I had two kids in new schools and couldn't attend both back to school nights.  Not tragic, but kind of a pain and it happened with a number of different events.[/quote]

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