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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you are an underrepresented group, you have a significant leg-up in the selection criteria.   They try to have a healthy mix of experiences and backgrounds otherwise you get a group of students who are basically all the same and don't really challenge each other in enough ways.[/quote]

That's actually against the law and if they did that they would be sued.[/quote]

Yes, it's fiction that some parents like to repeat. Apparently, it makes them feel better to blame others for their own failings despite a lack of evidence.[/quote]

New Poster here.  I am not sure if it's against the law to admit students that might have disadvantages into the program for a wider representation.

That said, I have heard that mcps wants more diversity from three different admin people (on the higher ups in ES) mentioned this to me in passing.
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It’s possible they wish the program were more diverse but isn’t race a protected class. Consequently the selection committee does not know a candidates race, name or gender.  As the earlier poster said, these  rumors are fiction. [/quote]
Indeed, which is why they look at "cohort". It's not difficult to figure out that if a student has a larger cohort of very high scoring students, that student probably lives in one of the W clusters.

Someone posted a link on the forum that shows how many students from each MS for example scored very high on not just the magnet entrance test, but on MAP and PARCC. You had the usual suspects of a large group of very high scoring students.

Yes, I know this thread is about CES, but it stands to reason that this same logic would apply to CES admissions.[/quote]

Except cohort isn't a criteria for CES admission/[/quote]

False

Cohort is absolutely a criteria for CES admission.  They told parents that last year.  We had several kids waitlisted from our ES, and MCPS told them that their kids were denied admission due to a strong 'cohort' at the home school.  [/quote]

I'm afraid you've confused the middle school magnet criteria which uses cohort with CES that does not.[/quote]

No, I have not confused anything.

Parents who had kids on the Wait List for a CES were told that their kids were not admitted due to a strong cohort in their ES.  The CES definitely considers cohort, at least according to MCPS.
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