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No, mcps doubled the applicant pool by identifying kids who should be applying to the magnets. As a result, making admission that much more elusive.[/quote]

[b]Unfortunately, they did not stop at that. In addition they also added a peer group criterion in their evaluation, and as a result, admission was even *more* elusive for some kids[/b].[/quote]

Folks, they have ALWAYS had a peer-group at home school component to the selection; I was told this by MCPS a number of years ago when oldest child was applying.  They have just made it more formal maybe this year.  [/quote]

+1 The peer group question has always been in play, but what MCPS did this year was remove the other element, which was parents gaming the system by prepping, and/or "editing" the essay. [/quote]

Not true - MCPS may have intended to use it (or may have even used for occasional tie breaking) but never a wholesale rejection of this scale.

I heard some rumors a few months ago about MCPS intending to do "cluster grouping" and making some magnet curriculum material available to the other clusters where there was a critical mass. I hope the second part also turns out to be true. The magnet curriculum needs to be widely available and not just in one school.[/quote]

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