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[quote=Anonymous]So looks like MCPS used the following selection criteria:
- MAP-R and MAP-M PERCENTIlLE scores.  I guess they don't care if you are 2-grade levels up at 99% or at grade level 99%, as long as you are at some percentile they deem reasonable, although we don't know what that should be.  I am also sure it is center dependent, with Cold Spring traditionally being the hardest to get in.
- Peer Cohort:  If you have 20 people who are similar to your profile at your ES, you have a cohort and likely won't get selected.  Although what range of scores on what tests constitute a cohort??  If this is 80%-98%, this is quite a wide range and MCPS can manipulate the numbers as they please to fit whatever it is that they want.  
- Your MCPS Cogat Composite Percentile, that was put through some socioeconomic formula.  So I guess two kids could score the exact same score and their MCPS Percentile would be different if the socio-economic status of their school is different.  Some might say within the same cluster the schools might not be that much different in terms of socioeconomic status but I don't necessarily think that is the case.  Would they consider Seven Locks, Bells Mill and Potomac ES one notch "richer" than Dufief, for example, for the Cold Spring Cluster, therefore the MCPS percentile is formulaically altered consequently?
- Report Card Grades
- Non-Score Student Essay:  It says non-scored as they don't "grade" it but the content is used in consideration for the selection process.

How much do each of this weigh in the selection process?  Without something concrete, it seems quite subjective and can be easily tinkered with.[/quote]

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