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Yep. There is real evidence that Asians need to score higher to get into these programs. Just like they have to score higher to get into  the same colleges, or medical schools. [/quote]

No, not just like. Unlike colleges or medical schools, MCPS is not allowed to use race as a factor in admissions decisions. And the people who made the Takoma/Eastern admissions decisions did not know the racial/ethnic categories of the applicants.[/quote]
They could guess. If you used to accept 15 kids from Cold Spring into Takoma and all of them were Asian in the past you could guess that if you only accepted 1-2 of them this year by claiming there is a "strong peer cohort" then you would have 13-14 additional slots for non-Asian kids.[/quote]

The people who made the Takoma/Eastern admissions decisions also did not know which elementary schools the applicants attended.[/quote]

Overall I thought the county took a big step in the right direction with its changes to the admissions. Sure, it may not be perfect but more kids benefit even ones with a strong cohort at their home schools.[/quote]
If that is your metric sure, but it still doesn't negate that the bar was lowered and again, if I'm wrong, then MCPS should publish the median test scores of accepted students.

But, I disagree that kids from strong cohort schools are better off with this method.  The added one or two classes won't be as high a caliber as those in the magnet schools.  One or two "enriched" classes doesn't make a magnet program.[/quote]

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