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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^If you have your heart set on a MS magnet I do think at least this year it was easier to get in from the non-CES schools. They tried to include a few from each elementary so if your child is the top at his home school it seems like she or he got in. At the CES, top kids were waitlisted left and right and according to DC's friends some of the non-CES kids scored lower than some CES kids.

Those higher scoring CES kids did get off the wait list later.[/quote]

They compared CES kids to other kids from their home elementary, not the CES class, and were looking at the cohort available in their home MS. CES does not change whether or not you get into MS magnets.[/quote]

You are very wrong.

They compared kids to their home middle school. But there was an extra layer of selection where they tried to make sure every elementary was included. This is why you would see kids with much lower scores get in if they were the top kids at their home middle school. Competition to get from the CES was crazy. Shocked certain kids (not DC) did not get during the first round.[/quote]

Link please.[/quote]

No. It had nothing to do with CES. It had to do with home elementary and home MS. Same for kids who apply from private school... they were compared to home elementary and home middle school. There is no CES competition. This is pure myth.[/quote]

I don't believe this for a second.  I have a kid at CCES CES, and almost no one got into the MS magnets.  Irrespective of what ES they came from.  It's not possible that none of these kids are the top kid when compared with the pool at the home school.  They absolutely are considering the CES kids to be coming "from" the CES elementary school, not from the home school.  I strongly believe that going to the CES now reduces the chance of getting into the MS magnets.  But I can also see some value to spreading around those opportunities.  My kid got 2 great years in CES, and now a kid from our home ES who didn't have that will have a similarly rigorous experience in MS.  And my kid will be coming from a different MS when time rolls around for HS programs.  Or kid will have a great experience at the home HS.  It is what it is and you're not guaranteed the perfect individualized learning experience from public school.  If that's what you want you have to go pay for it.  Our kid has flourished in the CES.  But kid will most likely also be fine at the home MS.  It is what it is.  [/quote]

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