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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If I were to guess, MCPS had various test minimums they were looking for, but they didn't give much extra weight to an applicant based on how high in the 99th percentile a score might be.  After that, they consider teacher recommendation, written response--subjective criterion--but, everyone in the pool is more than capable of attending the magnet.  I'm doubting that zip was a big part of the process.  But students who have been expecting admission based on an extra high test scores would find themselves in a much bigger pool.  If those students really are clustered in a given zip code, well ... 40 page thread.[/quote]

Why are you posting to this thread? There weren't even any teacher recs this year. And they already did say that the cohort of your home school was a consideration. [b]Clearly the kids that got in from the Western county schools probably didn't have a peer at an Eastern county school, or not a peer that was as good a fit for the magnet,[/b] or the committee realized they had to accept someone from those schools or it would just look too bad. I'm in the DCC for the record, so I don't have a dog in that fight. My kid didn't get in, but our home middle school is in Silver Spring. The county just does not have enough enrichment and accleration opportunity at the middle school level. This whole thing is absolutely ridiculous. Screening 4000 kids for 200 spots? Pretending that only 200 kids need or deserve enrichment or acceleration? Leaving it up to parents to advocate with the home  school principal for this? Come on. That's a joke.[/quote]

What does this mean?  Not being snarky; I honestly don't understand this sentence.[/quote]

Yes, this was confusing. What I meant was, perhaps the kids who got in from Western county schools scored so high they did not have an equivalently high scoring peer from a middle school someplace without a "cohort" to be placed in the spot instead, so they got the spot. Or another possibility is the committee understood that they did have to throw  a few bones the way of schools in higher income areas and let some of those kids in, even though they have home middle schools with higher ability peers. I don't know. Who can say? It's not really possible that there are fewer kids from Cold Sprng just because they cast a wider net. I simply don't personally believe it. I still believe those kids would be some of the highest scoring kids in the whole county for a variety of reasons even with way more kids tested. The 700 kids tested before weren't some random selection of 700 kids. Yes, it was a smaller number of kids. But it was a self selected cohort of highly motivated kids willing to fill out a lengthy application and yes, with parents willing to support that. Of course within the 3300 additional kids screened you will have children who in the past have just not applied and this year did...but something else is going on. [/quote]

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