CES Waitlist Spots?

[Anonymous]

Anyone hear from MCPS with a waitlist offer yet for a CES spot?

[Anonymous]

Anything?

[Anonymous]

Well, at least we aren't the only ones waiting.

Since it is a "wait pool" does anyone know how they make selections?

-Parent of a kid with 99.9 MAP scores.

[Anonymous]

Indeed.

-Parent of a kid with 200.0 MAP scores.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Indeed.

-Parent of a kid with 200.0 MAP scores.

PPs, no one cares what your kids' MAP scores are (though I'm curious about the "99.99%" since it's not expressed that way on the MAP Student Progress report - do you mean "99-99-99" or are you just making stuff up?). In any event, individual scores don't matter once your DC is in the lottery pool. If you want to know how the waitlist works, you can do what I did and call or email DCCAPS and they will tell you. Basically, they go back to the pool once there is a critical mass of slots open from the last round of admits. They will keep doing this as families decline. It's entirely possible though more unusual to get admitted near the time that school starts, if families decide to opt for their home school at the last minute due to commuting or other issues.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, at least we aren't the only ones waiting.

Since it is a "wait pool" does anyone know how they make selections?

-Parent of a kid with 99.9 MAP scores.

If there is a vacancy in a particular CES program, they go to the kids in the lottery for the feeder schools and draw randomly to fill the vacancy.