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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. [b]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.[/b] 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]

No, it was a self-selected cohort of highly-motivated [i]parents[/i]. Specifically, highly-motivated parents who were in the know.[/quote]

Every year (including this year for HS)  we receive a notice from MCPS regarding the opportunity to the HS/MS Magnet or HGC.   [b]All parents [/b]of MCPS students are in the know on the same level !   We have three studnets at MCPS -- but only one applied for magnet and got in because we knew this one had a shot.   MCPS gave ALL parents the opportunity to select their kids to compete, and we did.     [/quote]

Look at the posts in this thread from folks who wouldn't have thought to have their child tested, but were accepted. Those were self-identified white, English speaking, middle class families. Now imagine you are not all of the above. [b]MCPS is casting a wider net because they did research and found that kids who could have done the work weren't even taking the test.[/b] [/quote]
If this is what happened then I applaud MCPS.  If on the other hand kids with higher scores were deliberately passed over simply because they lived in a more affluent neighborhood, then that is not fair.  We need to see the raw scores of accepted and rejected kids to know for sure.[/quote]

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