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What happened to the OCD poster who kept insisting this was all a "straight" lottery?

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You mean the crazy person who was insisting it was a weighted lottery when they expressly said it was a lottery.[/quote]

Agree that poster kept trying to pretend it was a weighted lottery without a shred of evidence because it made them feel better to believe this. It made no sense. Moco stated they used criteria to establish a pool and then ran a lottery The evidence also supports this. Even my 6th grader who's at RM was frankly very lucky.  Many kids in their CES had much higher MAP scores. Further, the demographics also seem to reflect exactly what I'd imagine the top 15% looks like rather than the top 2% from years past.[/quote]

The weighted lottery conspiracy poster's implication is the county is secretly using race as the means by which the county is achieving its diversity goals. Of course, that would be crazy since they would be sued and lose. [/quote]

MCPS has long admitted that they weight magnet admissions geographically so some kids from every school get into the magnet.  This approach is 100% legal since it is not race-based even though it ends up being somewhat of a proxy for race.

People have to acknowledge that the top 2% from years past isn’t necessarily reflective of the truly brightest in the county.  There are many factors of the previous admissions process that weigh in favor of privileged kids  and against minorities, including test scores.  Test scores are not privilege-neutral selectors.

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That's actually false. Last year was very different. They admitted it was. a lottery which is a random draw by definition despite what the conspiracy poster wants to believe.  However, the pool for the lottery was made up of students from the top 15% based on several criteria. This is perfectly clear and the data supports this.[/quote]

There is NO WAY if you know the first thing about probability that 20% of kids who are FARMS made it in and a much lower percentage of other groups if it was a completely random lottery. Please study some math before you post nonsense.[/quote]

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