Which HS magnets is your child turning down?

[Anonymous]

This is to give hope to those on the waitlist.

[Anonymous]

Wheaton engineering

[Anonymous]

Don't know yet, but he got into 4 and can only go to one, so the wait lists will certainly move

[Anonymous]

Poolesville Ecology. Super interested in program but got in to another magnet closer.

[Anonymous]

Someone in a previous thread said Wheaton Biomed and Wheaton Engineering.

[Anonymous]

My kid is turning down RMIB, Kennedy IB, CAP and Wheaton Engineering.

[Anonymous]

Turned down Rockville Engineering and Rockville Biomedical, accepted Wheaton Biomedical.

[Anonymous]

RMIb for Blair

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Turned down Rockville Engineering and Rockville Biomedical, accepted Wheaton Biomedical.

What is the difference between Wheaton’s biomedical and Rockville’s biomedical programs?

[Anonymous]

Turning down Kennedy IB for sure and probably RMIB as well

[Anonymous]

I think my kid will turn down Wheaton Engineering, accept CAP, and hope for Wheaton Biomed off the waitlist. How much does the Wheaton Biomed waitlist move? I feel like a lot of kids are rejecting it.

[Anonymous]

RMIB, PHS Humanity, PHS Global - for PHS SMCS.

[Anonymous]

MS parent here, not HS . . . Given the lottery systems in place even for the highly qualified students at other levels in MCPS, how can one student land invitations to more than 1-2 magnets? Is it because the application/criteria-based magnets in HS really work more like college admissions ( = admitting X number of students from the qualified pool, with the general understanding that X% usually accept), and/or because there is no longer any random draw involved in some HS magnets?

Confused. TIA for enlightening me!

[Anonymous]

There are two types of magnets. There are lottery magnets and criteria-based application magnets. For the latter the invited students are selected by a committee. Each school or program has its own committee so the selections at one school are made independent of other schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are two types of magnets. There are lottery magnets and criteria-based application magnets. For the latter the invited students are selected by a committee. Each school or program has its own committee so the selections at one school are made independent of other schools.

What's the rationale for maintaining these strictly merit-based systems for a select group of magnets when MCPS is moving all the others at other grade levels to a strict lottery system once kids qualify? Does equity not count for some schools?