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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
IEP 504 FARMS and ESOL are all positive factors for consideration when applying to these special programs[/quote]

Please provide a source for this. I really think you are incorrect. [/quote]

If you have the IEP 504 FARMS and ESOL factor, you are not "Locally Normed". With 85%, you are in the lottery.
If you don't have the above factor, depends, but in a low moderate FARM school, 96% will NOT be in the lottery. 
They will adjust points to make it locally normed, and you are not in the lottery anymore. 96 - 12 = 84% percentile 
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I was on the MCPS website a while ago, where they listed admission factors to the application special programs. You'll have to find it yourself since I didn't save the link. It's also been discussed on this board numerous times. Again you'll need to search yourself to find those threads but it really isn't that hard.[/quote]

PP is correct. Look under FAQs
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jmQmo4UZDowNzddfXA56UtyB0KJPSfwiGi9oqqVT1OI/mobilebasic[/quote]

I am very familiar with the FAQs. Nowhere in it does it say you are not “locally normed” if you have a 504 or receive FARMS, etc. You assumed/inferred that. I understand how local norming works.  I promise you the MCCPTA gifted Ed committee has tried very very hard to get AEI to clarify how these student services are incorporated into the process and has asked if there is a separate lottery for those students or if they have different thresholds. AEI has not answered this question. [/quote]

The lottery is a very opaque process. My kids are old, and I thought the old process was not very transparent. It seems to have gotten less so. MCPS says lottery and 90% of people think it is a more "fair" process. Nothing has ever been published as to how MCPS considers these various "admissions factors" in its algorithm. Gender is another factor that is considered as well (so programs can be balanced). [/quote]

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