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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If MoCo is only admitting 99%-tile kids, then it is unlikely that that population has exploded to the same extent. I agree the program should be expanded. It should also be made made continuous ie once you are in you should only leave if you fail out and there should be entry years where you can test on along the way. For the über gifted there can be special programs but smart hardworking kids shouldn’t have to compete for advanced work[/quote]

We’ll never know, they stopped reporting cogat scores of admits last year when they remade the selection criteria. Who knows what the bar is now—90%, 95%, 99%??

Either way for a “top school district” with a large portion of the most educated parents in the country, mcps only having G&T seats for less than 1% of its student body is pretty pathetic. And telling of the Admins priorities and share of mind (ie. It ain’t on high performers).[/quote]

For CES programs, it's more than 1%.  Probably north of 5%.  There are 9 regional CES programs, and if each has only 2 CES classes per grade (ours has 3) with 28 kids each, that's 504 seats.  Assuming the 162K students in the system are evenly distributed across K-12, that's about 12,500 per grade.  The regional CES programs cover 4% of kids in each grade, more if you count the local centers.[/quote]

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