MAP R cut off for Poolsville Humanity or RMIB

[Anonymous]

RMIB should be harder to get in since it is countywide, while Poolsville Humanity is regional?

[Anonymous]

MCPS is proposing to eliminate the current Poolesville humanities program. It will only exist for one more school year if MCPS implements the planned changes. The county plans to switch to a proposed 6-region, standardized model for special programs, with the same programs offered in every region. Under the proposed model, every humanities program offered will be interest-based rather than criteria-based.

Will the most recent version of the proposal come to fruition? That remains to be seen. For the sake of academic continuity, an IB program is your best bet. If your dc doesn’t get into RMIB, well, then make your best guess about what to do with the changes to special programs and boundaries coming down the pike. Your dc may not attend the same school or have the same academic program or have the same classmates for all 4 years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MCPS is proposing to eliminate the current Poolesville humanities program. It will only exist for one more school year if MCPS implements the planned changes. The county plans to switch to a proposed 6-region, standardized model for special programs, with the same programs offered in every region. Under the proposed model, every humanities program offered will be interest-based rather than criteria-based.

Will the most recent version of the proposal come to fruition? That remains to be seen. For the sake of academic continuity, an IB program is your best bet. If your dc doesn’t get into RMIB, well, then make your best guess about what to do with the changes to special programs and boundaries coming down the pike. Your dc may not attend the same school or have the same academic program or have the same classmates for all 4 years.

The latest info I saw from a meeting said Humanities would be criteria based. But who knows, this is all being done so haphazardly

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS is proposing to eliminate the current Poolesville humanities program. It will only exist for one more school year if MCPS implements the planned changes. The county plans to switch to a proposed 6-region, standardized model for special programs, with the same programs offered in every region. Under the proposed model, every humanities program offered will be interest-based rather than criteria-based.

Will the most recent version of the proposal come to fruition? That remains to be seen. For the sake of academic continuity, an IB program is your best bet. If your dc doesn’t get into RMIB, well, then make your best guess about what to do with the changes to special programs and boundaries coming down the pike. Your dc may not attend the same school or have the same academic program or have the same classmates for all 4 years.

The latest info I saw from a meeting said Humanities would be criteria based. But who knows, this is all being done so haphazardly

So how many pieces of the proposed changes have they tweaked now? Is there a website that is updated in real time as the proposal is amended?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS is proposing to eliminate the current Poolesville humanities program. It will only exist for one more school year if MCPS implements the planned changes. The county plans to switch to a proposed 6-region, standardized model for special programs, with the same programs offered in every region. Under the proposed model, every humanities program offered will be interest-based rather than criteria-based.

Will the most recent version of the proposal come to fruition? That remains to be seen. For the sake of academic continuity, an IB program is your best bet. If your dc doesn’t get into RMIB, well, then make your best guess about what to do with the changes to special programs and boundaries coming down the pike. Your dc may not attend the same school or have the same academic program or have the same classmates for all 4 years.

The latest info I saw from a meeting said Humanities would be criteria based. But who knows, this is all being done so haphazardly

So how many pieces of the proposed changes have they tweaked now? Is there a website that is updated in real time as the proposal is amended?

Lol no

[Anonymous]

I mean for this year...

Anonymous wrote:MCPS is proposing to eliminate the current Poolesville humanities program. It will only exist for one more school year if MCPS implements the planned changes. The county plans to switch to a proposed 6-region, standardized model for special programs, with the same programs offered in every region. Under the proposed model, every humanities program offered will be interest-based rather than criteria-based.

Will the most recent version of the proposal come to fruition? That remains to be seen. For the sake of academic continuity, an IB program is your best bet. If your dc doesn’t get into RMIB, well, then make your best guess about what to do with the changes to special programs and boundaries coming down the pike. Your dc may not attend the same school or have the same academic program or have the same classmates for all 4 years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I mean for this year...

Anonymous wrote:MCPS is proposing to eliminate the current Poolesville humanities program. It will only exist for one more school year if MCPS implements the planned changes. The county plans to switch to a proposed 6-region, standardized model for special programs, with the same programs offered in every region. Under the proposed model, every humanities program offered will be interest-based rather than criteria-based.

Will the most recent version of the proposal come to fruition? That remains to be seen. For the sake of academic continuity, an IB program is your best bet. If your dc doesn’t get into RMIB, well, then make your best guess about what to do with the changes to special programs and boundaries coming down the pike. Your dc may not attend the same school or have the same academic program or have the same classmates for all 4 years.

You don’t care if your kid enrolls in a program that will cease to exist after their freshman year?

Right now, your dc can apply to both programs. Students are evaluated for admission to every program they apply to. They can be offered admission to multiple programs. Even if they’re accepted at one program and waitlisted at the other, and accept a spot in the first program, they can still potentially get in off the waitlist to the other program. There’s no downside to applying to as many programs as you want regardless of your dc’s MAP-R.

[Anonymous]

I heard it was MAP R 245+ for Poolsville Humanity and 250+ for RMIB...

Anonymous wrote:RMIB should be harder to get in since it is countywide, while Poolsville Humanity is regional?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I heard it was MAP R 245+ for Poolsville Humanity and 250+ for RMIB...

Anonymous wrote:RMIB should be harder to get in since it is countywide, while Poolsville Humanity is regional?

Does RMIB look at math scores/grades too?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I heard it was MAP R 245+ for Poolsville Humanity and 250+ for RMIB...

Anonymous wrote:RMIB should be harder to get in since it is countywide, while Poolsville Humanity is regional?

Does RMIB look at math scores/grades too?

No. IB math is regular honors math, so no need to filter.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I heard it was MAP R 245+ for Poolsville Humanity and 250+ for RMIB...

Anonymous wrote:RMIB should be harder to get in since it is countywide, while Poolsville Humanity is regional?

Does RMIB look at math scores/grades too?

No. IB math is regular honors math, so no need to filter.

They do look at math scores and grades. IB math is not regular honors math. Quite a few drop down to Honors Algebra 2 freshman year from AP App Functions.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I heard it was MAP R 245+ for Poolsville Humanity and 250+ for RMIB...

Anonymous wrote:RMIB should be harder to get in since it is countywide, while Poolsville Humanity is regional?

Does RMIB look at math scores/grades too?

No. IB math is regular honors math, so no need to filter.

They do look at math scores and grades. IB math is not regular honors math. Quite a few drop down to Honors Algebra 2 freshman year from AP App Functions.

What MAP-M scores do you need to get into RMiB? Can a kid with high MAP-R scores but mediocre MAP-M scores (50th-75th percentile) get in, or no?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I heard it was MAP R 245+ for Poolsville Humanity and 250+ for RMIB...

Anonymous wrote:RMIB should be harder to get in since it is countywide, while Poolsville Humanity is regional?

Does RMIB look at math scores/grades too?

No. IB math is regular honors math, so no need to filter.

They do look at math scores and grades. IB math is not regular honors math. Quite a few drop down to Honors Algebra 2 freshman year from AP App Functions.

What MAP-M scores do you need to get into RMiB? Can a kid with high MAP-R scores but mediocre MAP-M scores (50th-75th percentile) get in, or no?

I think they only look at MAP-R for RMIB. This is not a particularly robust selection process.

[Anonymous]

Only MAP-R score will be considered in IB or Humanity programs, not MAP math

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Anonymous wrote:I heard it was MAP R 245+ for Poolsville Humanity and 250+ for RMIB...

Anonymous wrote:RMIB should be harder to get in since it is countywide, while Poolsville Humanity is regional?

Does RMIB look at math scores/grades too?

No. IB math is regular honors math, so no need to filter.

They do look at math scores and grades. IB math is not regular honors math. Quite a few drop down to Honors Algebra 2 freshman year from AP App Functions.

What MAP-M scores do you need to get into RMiB? Can a kid with high MAP-R scores but mediocre MAP-M scores (50th-75th percentile) get in, or no?

I think they only look at MAP-R for RMIB. This is not a particularly robust selection process.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I heard it was MAP R 245+ for Poolsville Humanity and 250+ for RMIB...

Anonymous wrote:RMIB should be harder to get in since it is countywide, while Poolsville Humanity is regional?

Does 240+ have no chance in RMIB? DC’s map scores have been stagnant at 240+ for 3 years.