Blair SMAC

[Anonymous]

The magnet coordinator said last night that he could share the mean MAP-M score for admitted students by email. Did anyone get it yet?

[Anonymous]

Someone posted a few years ago that the mean was 270 which is the 99% for the beginning of 8th grade. It's also been said they use the percentile not the score since the test wasn't intended to differentiate between fractions of a percent.

[Anonymous]

Well that’s my kids exact score for the beginning of 8th. It was actually higher at the end of 7th by a few points. I guess that’s hopeful then.

[Anonymous]

My kid is 265 and steadily 98/99. Got into CES and TPMS, so don't be discouraged by viewing the mean as a bar. You don't know how high or low the range strays.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid is 265 and steadily 98/99. Got into CES and TPMS, so don't be discouraged by viewing the mean as a bar. You don't know how high or low the range strays.

Did he get into Blair? Not sure how this is relevant if not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Someone posted a few years ago that the mean was 270 which is the 99% for the beginning of 8th grade. It's also been said they use the percentile not the score since the test wasn't intended to differentiate between fractions of a percent.

this - and not every of the few hundred kids assigned to Blair with a 99% MAP-M even applies

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My kid is 265 and steadily 98/99. Got into CES and TPMS, so don't be discouraged by viewing the mean as a bar. You don't know how high or low the range strays.

Did he get into Blair? Not sure how this is relevant if not.

I'm trying to share my positive non-panic attitude, I guess.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My kid is 265 and steadily 98/99. Got into CES and TPMS, so don't be discouraged by viewing the mean as a bar. You don't know how high or low the range strays.

Did he get into Blair? Not sure how this is relevant if not.

I'm trying to share my positive non-panic attitude, I guess.

I’m not panicking at all. That my kids score is the mean of those admitted is great and very encouraging! He’s steadily 99th percentile. Just not one of the kids with 300+ scores. I know he’d do very well in the program but we’ll see.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid is 265 and steadily 98/99. Got into CES and TPMS, so don't be discouraged by viewing the mean as a bar. You don't know how high or low the range strays.

Did he get into Blair? Not sure how this is relevant if not.

I'm trying to share my positive non-panic attitude, I guess.

I’m not panicking at all. That my kids score is the mean of those admitted is great and very encouraging! He’s steadily 99th percentile. Just not one of the kids with 300+ scores. I know he’d do very well in the program but we’ll see.

300 and 270 are both 99% for the fall of 8th, and they use the percentile since the test wasn't designed to differentiate between fractions of a percent.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My kid is 265 and steadily 98/99. Got into CES and TPMS, so don't be discouraged by viewing the mean as a bar. You don't know how high or low the range strays.

Did he get into Blair? Not sure how this is relevant if not.

I'm trying to share my positive non-panic attitude, I guess.

I’m not panicking at all. That my kids score is the mean of those admitted is great and very encouraging! He’s steadily 99th percentile. Just not one of the kids with 300+ scores. I know he’d do very well in the program but we’ll see.

300 and 270 are both 99% for the fall of 8th, and they use the percentile since the test wasn't designed to differentiate between fractions of a percent.

That’s not what they said on Monday night.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid is 265 and steadily 98/99. Got into CES and TPMS, so don't be discouraged by viewing the mean as a bar. You don't know how high or low the range strays.

Did he get into Blair? Not sure how this is relevant if not.

I'm trying to share my positive non-panic attitude, I guess.

I’m not panicking at all. That my kids score is the mean of those admitted is great and very encouraging! He’s steadily 99th percentile. Just not one of the kids with 300+ scores. I know he’d do very well in the program but we’ll see.

300 and 270 are both 99% for the fall of 8th, and they use the percentile since the test wasn't designed to differentiate between fractions of a percent.

That’s not what they said on Monday night.

It sure was.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid is 265 and steadily 98/99. Got into CES and TPMS, so don't be discouraged by viewing the mean as a bar. You don't know how high or low the range strays.

Did he get into Blair? Not sure how this is relevant if not.

I'm trying to share my positive non-panic attitude, I guess.

I’m not panicking at all. That my kids score is the mean of those admitted is great and very encouraging! He’s steadily 99th percentile. Just not one of the kids with 300+ scores. I know he’d do very well in the program but we’ll see.

300 and 270 are both 99% for the fall of 8th, and they use the percentile since the test wasn't designed to differentiate between fractions of a percent.

That’s not what they said on Monday night.

It sure was.

Were you actually there? What he said was that he didn’t remember the exact mean MAP score but that parents could email him to find it out. He did not say anything even remotely like the actual score doesn’t master anyway because we look at percentiles only.

[Anonymous]

Matter not master

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Anonymous wrote:My kid is 265 and steadily 98/99. Got into CES and TPMS, so don't be discouraged by viewing the mean as a bar. You don't know how high or low the range strays.

Did he get into Blair? Not sure how this is relevant if not.

I'm trying to share my positive non-panic attitude, I guess.

I’m not panicking at all. That my kids score is the mean of those admitted is great and very encouraging! He’s steadily 99th percentile. Just not one of the kids with 300+ scores. I know he’d do very well in the program but we’ll see.

300 and 270 are both 99% for the fall of 8th, and they use the percentile since the test wasn't designed to differentiate between fractions of a percent.

That’s not what they said on Monday night.

It sure was.

Were you actually there? What he said was that he didn’t remember the exact mean MAP score but that parents could email him to find it out. He did not say anything even remotely like the actual score doesn’t master anyway because we look at percentiles only.

It's been discussed here openly for years that percentiles are used since comparing the RAW scores is meaningless. If you'd asked them about this, I'm sure they would've told you as much.6

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Anonymous wrote:My kid is 265 and steadily 98/99. Got into CES and TPMS, so don't be discouraged by viewing the mean as a bar. You don't know how high or low the range strays.

Did he get into Blair? Not sure how this is relevant if not.

I'm trying to share my positive non-panic attitude, I guess.

I’m not panicking at all. That my kids score is the mean of those admitted is great and very encouraging! He’s steadily 99th percentile. Just not one of the kids with 300+ scores. I know he’d do very well in the program but we’ll see.

300 and 270 are both 99% for the fall of 8th, and they use the percentile since the test wasn't designed to differentiate between fractions of a percent.

That’s not what they said on Monday night.

It sure was.

Were you actually there? What he said was that he didn’t remember the exact mean MAP score but that parents could email him to find it out. He did not say anything even remotely like the actual score doesn’t master anyway because we look at percentiles only.

It's been discussed here openly for years that percentiles are used since comparing the RAW scores is meaningless. If you'd asked them about this, I'm sure they would've told you as much.6

What is discussed on DCUM often doesn’t have any bearing on what fact is. Just because someone repeats it regularly here doesn’t mean it’s true.