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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the central office did a really good job. For application based magnets, there is no cohort criteria like middle school.[/quote]

What is “cohort criteria “?[/quote]

It's a way to offset the well-documented advantages that some schools have over others. Just look at a post on the boundary study and you'll see that many parents believe some schools are much better than others and confer advantages to their students. The cohort criteria simply recognize that this is true.[/quote]
It's a way to get more students from other schools into magnets because collectively, they don't score as high. Western side of the county was over represented, and MCPS didn't like that.  It's no longer about serving the needs of the highest performers in the *county*, but rather, within each school.   This means that a student who performs at a much higher level in School A will not get in if they have a peer cohort at the home school even though that student performs at a higher level than another student at school B who did get in, but doesn't have a peer cohort at School B.  This means that the peer cohort at the magnet is not the highest performers in the county, but rather only within their home school, which means the ability levels are going to be wider.[/quote]

Because the western side of the county is hoarding opportunity by using outside enrichment to game the system, the cohort criteria was introduced to nullify that advantage and identify actual outliers as opposed to the most prepped.[/quote]
LOL  I suppose if you make your HSer study and prep for the SATs you are gaming the system, too.  Oh, I know.. but that's "different".

The cohort criteria does not nullify outside enrichment since I know that there are folks who live in the SS area who also provide outside enrichment for their kids; conversely, there are plenty of students on the western side of the county who have never gone to a Dr Li class, like my kid.  I didn't even know what that was.

The cohort criteria was used because the magnets were dominated by a certain area, and MCPS did not like that, and the change in criteria came about after the Metis report.  [/quote]

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