Pool size for TPMS and Eastern lotteries
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Anonymous
| Not in humanities lottery despite having the right grades and a strong opinion from the classroom teacher that DC belonged there. Guess the MAP got normed out of the pool but don't know how to appeal that. |
Anonymous
| We got the letter today. DD was placed in the humanities magnet and met criteria for math but not placed. Fall MAP scores were as follows Map-R 245, Map-m 237. Need to accept or decline by Feb 3rd. |
Anonymous
| Places in Takoma Park magnet program. Map M was 237 for fall. Didn’t qualify for Humanities. |
Anonymous
Those are low scores - is she at a high poverty school? |
Anonymous
Not sure about the Map-R, but my DD got similar Map-M and it was 97 or 98 percentile. So not 99, but I think considered high enough to get into a magnet based on MCPS criteria. |
Anonymous
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We got the letter today. DC was placed in the humanities and math pools, and won a math magnet slot at TPMS, which is our home school.
We’ll probably take the spot, although math is not my child’s favorite subject so it’s not definite. |
Anonymous
| ^^ MAP scores were in the 95-98%ile. I don’t know offhand. |
Anonymous
Nope, CES program at Chevy chase. Map-R is 99th percentile and map-m 97th. Not sure why you think that is low? These are fall scores btw. |
Anonymous
Those are 99th and 96th percentiles nationally. Don't start on any 300-club tutoring-exposure nonsense. |
Anonymous
Far, far easier to lottery in from the TPMS catchment. Several times more likely to get a spot. There are 100 seats for those outside the catchment. There are another 25 seats reserved for those inside the catchment, though there are far fewer students there than 25% of the outside population. |
Anonymous
| We are excited! Qualified for both and have a place at Eastern, which is our home school so yes we had a higher chance of getting in there. Wait pool at Takoma Park. |
Anonymous
How did you find out your child placed? The snail mail letter we got today only mentioned qualifying for the lottery. |
Anonymous
That same letter says if you did or did not get “placed in the regional program”. |
Anonymous
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The letter was extremely confusing and unclear if you did not get a spot but qualified. The parkland/argyle/loiederman clearly stated if you didn't get selected from the lottery - whereas this one said you qualified and it was a mix of past and present tense, but no mention if you were not selected.
That said - waitlist for Takoma - 98% for Map-M in the fall. |
Anonymous
Indeed, the letter has vague language when in lottery pool but did not get a spot. In the same boat as PP; waitlist for Takoma- 98% Map-M. |