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Although you could argue that the kids with the higher scores might need the acceleration and enrichment more.
If the higher COGAT test scores are also echoed by higher MAP R and higher MAP M scores (which you can't prep for), it does indicate that MCPS is doing this group of kids a real disservice if they are assuming there is no difference between a 135 SAS score and a 147 SAS score and if they giving undue emphasis on geography.
fwiw I don't have a kid at Cold Spring but I have been around kids in other MCPS magnet programs (ES, MS and HS) and bright high achieving kids in a regular W school district.  There is some overlap but one big difference I have noticed is the thirst for knowledge you see amongst magnet kids.  Perhaps not all of them, but as a group these kids love to learn and seek out challenge and something special happens when you put a group of kids like this in one place together.  There are also far more genuine outliers in a magnet program than you would find in a regular school.  This is why it is sad to hear what happened to the Cold Spring kids.  An acceptance to a middle school magnet is not a "prize" for a kid whose parents force them to prep as some posters have implied, it is rather the only appropriate place for a large number of the kids currently in Cold Spring who received rejection letters.  
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I am starting to feel very sorry for these Cold Spring kids, who are more brilliant than any other kids in the whole school district, but who have now had their middle-school years ruined -- RUINED! Rejected and despised by MCPS; children of sorrows, acquainted with grief.[/b]

(I am not being sincere.)[/quote]

Not just their middle school years.  Their long-term futures.  Their potential as future doctors, researchers and cancer-curers.    All gone!!   :([/quote]

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