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MCPS has long admitted that they weight magnet admissions geographically so some kids from every school get into the magnet.  This approach is 100% legal since it is not race-based even though it ends up being somewhat of a proxy for race.

People have to acknowledge that the top 2% from years past isn’t necessarily reflective of the truly brightest in the county.  There are many factors of the previous admissions process that weigh in favor of privileged kids  and against minorities, including test scores.  Test scores are not privilege-neutral selectors.

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People evidently do not have to acknowledge this, at least judging from the large number of posts over the last few years that have insisted the contrary.[/quote]
This is not exactly the process that they use so I’m not sure why the knowing, snotty comment. And last year they devised a whole new process. So your insistence to expertise here is actually what’s bizarre. [/quote]

DD was lucky enough to land at TPMS. She is strong at math but by no means an outlier. I think she scored in the high 240s on her MAP-M which probably wouldn't have made the cut in previous years. She's discussed tMAP-M scores with a number of her magnet classmates and according to her everyone, she's met fells between the low 230s to low 250s. Now I'm sure there are still a few outliers but with the random selection, it seems very rare this year based on her sample. [/quote]

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