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No, all you can assume there are too many capable students for the number of slots available.  Magnet selection has never been about finding a perfect ranking of the applicants and selecting them solely on that ordering and has never been strictly by test score.  If the medians are that high, the selected students had high scores, not across the board perfect scores, but high scores.[/quote]

Is there even a meaningful difference between a kid with a high 98th-percentile score and a kid with a low 99th-percentile score?[/quote]

If it's Cogat, the raw scores is more differenciating. My HGC students 2 years ago had 141/132/158. It'll be all 99% in percentiles. MCPS should have the raw scores, but they chose to use percentile scores instead and everyone's scores look very similar. Why? you can only guess. [/quote]
Exactly. If they are not providing raw scores for each section and the median score it definitely looks like they are rejecting high scoring kids based on where they live
I think we need to demand a third middle school magnet for the south western part of the county. 
Middle school “honors “ classes are just not going to cut it for many of the kids who might have been rejected because of affirmative action  [/quote]

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