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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our child was in CES last year (5th). After multiple rounds of acceptances, about seven of his friends from his CES school are going to TPMS and Eastern.

The year before, however, there were about 7 kids that got into TPMS and about the same that got into Eastern, in one 27-student class. I don't know why, maybe they changed how they do it this year?

That said, we received a spot at Eastern the first week of school but turned it down. At that point, it sounded like several spots were still open and they were having trouble filling the spots. More people tend to turn Eastern down than TPMS. There was not much movement on the TPMS front after the first round was chosen.

I will say, [b]while they bill the merit-based lottery as totally random, I don't really believe it. [/b]Of the four siblings we knew who currently were in the TPMS magnet, all four of their younger siblings got in this year. It's very statistically improbable. And frustrating, as having a sibling currently in the program should not matter in the slightest but the merit of each individual child.[/quote]

DP - just chiming in to say I agree completely with you on the bolded.  I know a few too many kids who got in who are the true outliers in terms of goodness of fit.  As you said, PP, it's very statistically improbable that these half dozen or whatever kids were *all* selected in a given year.  I suspect they might do a partial lottery for other kids, but some of them seem hand-picked.  That they're taking sibling preference into account is disappointing, if unsurprising.[/quote]

Well, you're wrong. The lottery is just a lottery.[/quote]

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