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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am very confused after reading all these messages. My son was recommended for Takoma Park and while he always scores 99% in MAP and gets straight A's, his cogat MCPS percentiles weren't as impressive (70's and 80's). We are Causasian in a W-feeder. Not sure why he was selected, to be honest, after seeing the scores for the kids who were not recommended.[/quote]
Does your child have any special circumstances (IEP, 504, anything of that matter)? Are his MAP scores unusually high?

My child was flat out rejected (not even waitlisted) from a CES with 99% percentiles pretty much across the board, while a couple of other children from his school who didn't strike me an obvious 'outliers' got in. I decided to put it behind us, and I'm not holding my breath for the next year's magnet selection. There's no rhyme or reason to what MCPS does, and it's a crying shame.
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I don't know what's going on with the MS magnets but for elementary school students [b]it can be really hard to pinpoint the outliers from a sea of very bright kids.[/b] But based on anecdotal evidence you have a legitimate gripe. At some schools it seems like there weren't any outliers but a lucky few had to get in so they got in.[/quote]

DP, with a kid in a Regional CES.

Maybe that's true, but at our CES, the kids do a good amount of work together.  Especially in 4th grade, there were a ton of group projects.  They're often allowed to work in pairs, or teams for Math worksheets, etc.  They really get to know each other, and know their strengths and weaknesses.  Also, the kids talk about scores, like it or not.  They're pretty open about MAP scores, and grades on tests.

It's not abnormal for the kids to know that Larla is phenomenal at Math.  They edit each other's work, so they know who has a strong vocabulary, etc.[/quote]

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