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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1. BCC isn't downcounty consortium.

2. There is a "geographic" criteria for magnet selection, so that MCPS can give an advantage to poorly-performing schools in lower-income districts. So if you're in Bethesda, yes, your child is at a disadvantage, even if you scraped together all you had to afford a rent-controlled apartment there.
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I know this thread is a little bit old, but just popping in to say that for HS magnet selection, they don’t know your child’s current or in boundary school. They even strip course titles so the selection committee doesn’t know who came from TPMS, where math classes have “Magnet” in the course title. This came from Ostrander at the info session in the fall. [/quote]

I was at the info session and he did not say that they strip magnet from the course titles. [/quote]

NP: I was also there and heard him say it. You must have missed it, PP. [/quote]

It was a good information session and he was very diplomatic. I got the sense that he was trying very hard to say all the right things, but that the committee absolutely knows who is in the TPMS magnet and who is not. [/quote]

It has to be obvious because they would take computer science courses in 7th and 8th and they don't offer that at any other MS. It makes no sense to strip the magnet designation from the math grade in the transcript because the kids in the humanities magnet would also have different specialized courses that would be obvious. [/quote]

But at the open house the coordinator said that they don’t have access to the entire transcript, just the math and science grades. [/quote]

That's terrible. Why are they making it so narrow? It's really like a lottery then, and I really think that's unfair to the TPMS students who challenge themselves by taking harder classes in both subjects. I do not have a TPMS student FWIW.[/quote]

It’s a crapshoot. Might as well be a lottery. [/quote]

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