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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It looks like cold spring principal already confirmed the peer group consideration. Why do some people still try to downplay these kids’ achievements? Will there be kids with even superior scores? Likely. Someone disclosed median (97/99/97/99) of admitted. It already told you that at least half got scores not as good as 99ers. We are all entitled to our own opinions. But let us form opinions consistent with the info we obtained. [/quote]
Thanks I missed that earlier post.
So the median score of accepted students was 97/99/97/99.  Do we know of any rejected kids who got scores that were higher than this?[/quote]

Yes, the early parts of the thread are filled with those kinds of kids (99% in all categories, or maybe one category with a 98), and my kid was one of them.  But of course that's always true that some kids with higher than the median will be rejected - that's the nature of how a median works.

When things like essays and teacher recs are taken into account, people with top scores who don't get in can feel there are other justifiable reasons to be excluded.  Personally, it is also OK with me when people with both hardships and lower scores get in  -- let's say 50% get in that way.  Fine. What about the other 50%.  We know that some UMC kids, no hardships, from good schools with supposed cohorts, have gotten in, but there is no evidence that those kids were the very top scoring kids on the various metrics that can distinguish that (the highest MAP M or MAP R scores; not just PARCC scores of 5, but the high-end of the 5's -- for example, my rejected kid's math PARCC score is close to perfect).  MCPS didn't say that they randomly chose among a top group of UMC kids going to good schools with no hardships (let's say the 97-99 percenters).  If they had, I would accept that too.   And they masked the admission test results by not giving us SAS scores, so we can't know from that metric, but we have our doubts based on anecdotal evidence.  That is why we are frustrated.  At least it's why I am.  [/quote]

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