HS Magnet decisions

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This does not make sense. And it is not true that the students share many classes with non-magnet kids. At least when my son attended there were Magnet courses grades 9 - 10 for all academic courses, only non-academic and nonIB courses were with the whole school. Makes no sense to make the JW families and kids wait if that is still the expected plan. Unless they don't have their act together in administration and counseling. Don't be surprised if there are new changes to the Magnet program revealed once the selected students are notified. The school will need to line up with the rest of the regional programs, so when it becomes a regional program it won't be a noticeable change.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Correct me if I am wrong but unlike Wootton, RM has a county-wide IB magnet program, to which applied a whole
LOT of kids from the entire MoCo. MCPS will notify students who got accepted into test-in magnet programs including
IB at RM by the end of January. Many kids will get accepted to more then one program. Nobody knows when the
decisions letters will arrive to the homes of the students. It is fairly logical speculation that MCPS did the right
decision to give some time for the letters to arrive and then some more for the students to decide weather
to accept the invitation to the program, choose if accepted to more or decline. It is a process.

One could assume that the Early February date is set to accommodate the time needed for all the letters
to arrive and for all the kids to sort their situation. That will give all the kids both magnet and non magnet
equal chance to register to the shared classes at RMIB since magnet kids do share many classes with
non-magnet kids.

This is not a fact, this is an opinion.

That makes sense. Non-magnet high schools have it in January and magnet high schools wait until February?

If you want to know for sure, just call MCPS.

[Anonymous]

Finally last week of Jan... anyone has any updates regarding results ? will it be on portal or physical post ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Finally last week of Jan... anyone has any updates regarding results ? will it be on portal or physical post ?

Just keep checking the portal every day

[Anonymous]

Late Jan is Jan 31 (just like real estate market..homes selling for low 500s is $549K )

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Late Jan is Jan 31 (just like real estate market..homes selling for low 500s is $549K )

It does seem like it's in MCPS's best interest to release decisions on a Friday.

[Anonymous]

Last year results came in on Monday evening.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Last year results came in on Monday evening.

Monday would not be late January though.

Was that results in the mail or in the portal?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Last year results came in on Monday evening.

Monday would not be late January though.

Was that results in the mail or in the portal?

Cogat results in portal, decision in postal.

[Anonymous]

Last year, were the Cogat results posted before decisions?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Last year, were the Cogat results posted before decisions?

Yes. Last year Cogat was posted in portal. Results in mail.

[Anonymous]

But this year it says results will be posted in portal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:But this year it says results will be posted in portal.

They just mentioned "posted by late Jan"

[Anonymous]

The Blair magnet seems to be in a panic as more and more students opt for other magnet programs. A parent in the know tells me the coordinator is using his influence to get past students to write glowing opinions about the program.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:But this year it says results will be posted in portal.

They just mentioned "posted by late Jan"

Nobody says posted to mean mailed

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Blair magnet seems to be in a panic as more and more students opt for other magnet programs. A parent in the know tells me the coordinator is using his influence to get past students to write glowing opinions about the program.

That is interesting; are there better programs? The only other ones for us were Poolesville Ecology and RMIB, i am not sure if they are any better than Blair.