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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I really wish mcps had made a concerted effort to administrated the COGAT, I feel that would have given my child a better chance for acceptance into the magnets, instead of this lame lottery system.[/quote]

They do have to qualify for the lottery.
Even if they had administered COGAT I bet they would have used a lottery.[/quote]

To qualify for the lottery a student needs to score higher than 80% on MAP testing....that’s like 3/4 of our school, if not more. That’s is no way as good as qualifying based on good COGAT SCORES.[/quote]

You're just plain wrong. They could set the "good Cogat SCORES" at 80 percentile and above, or some other similar fashion, and we'd be right back to the same debate. In fact they could require x-percentile MAP OR x-percentile Cogat and that could create an even larger lottery pool.

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DP here. or [b]they could do what they did previously and have universal screening process and then pick the children with the highest cogat scores[/b], and completely eliminate the lottery pool. What a concept! those who deserve it would be those with the highest scores.[/quote]

That is not what they did previously.[/quote]

Care to elaborate?[/quote]

At one point wealthy families would prep up to game the selection process. A lot more invites went to students at wealthy schools. The county made it a bit more fair by drawing the top students from all schools. This seemed to actually result in a stronger overall selection since it put more emphasis on natural ability and talent....[/quote]

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