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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]
could you cite all the sources that claim this?  If they didn't where the students' home schools were, then how would they know whether that student had a cohort in the home school?[/quote]

This has been covered, but let us cover it again. They knew what middle school those children WOULD BE attending based on their address, but not which elementary school they were leaving.

So, since you insist on focusing on Cold Spring, the evaluators knew that Child Y was slated for Cabin John MS. Since Cabin John is plurality white, it seems like a hard case to make that kids slated to attend Cabin John were discriminated against for being Asian.

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What does it matter whether they knew the home ES or MS?    Hoover and Frost have a high Asian/white population and very low URM one.  Not hard to figure it out.[/quote]

It matters because MCPS applied the same "cohort" standard to Hoover, Frost, Cabin John, Westland, Silver Lake, and every other middle school with a large number of high performing kids. Now, you may disagree with the idea of a cohort, or that kids who are outliers at their schools *need* the curriculum more than kids who have a large group of similarly high fliers, but you cannot argue that kids zoned for Hoover were subject to a different standard than another middle school with similarly high-scoring kids.

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