Any high MAP+M(290+), straight As, and strong stem honor/award kids did not get in PHS/Blair SMACS?

[Anonymous]

Just curious...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just curious...

Results aren't even out, man.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just curious...

Probably pretty rare.

[Anonymous]

Do you have nothing better to do OP while you wait for results?

[Anonymous]

Op probably means previous years

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just curious...

Results aren't even out, man.

[Anonymous]

Yes. Nothing is a guarantee. Especially if the committee thinks the application is written by a striver mom, not the kid.

"290+" is a mid score, unless that "+" is doing a lot of work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes. Nothing is a guarantee. Especially if the committee thinks the application is written by a striver mom, not the kid.

"290+" is a mid score, unless that "+" is doing a lot of work.

Or the committee thinks that the test score was lucky and not consistent with the rest of performance across other areas of evaluation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes. Nothing is a guarantee. Especially if the committee thinks the application is written by a striver mom, not the kid.

"290+" is a mid score, unless that "+" is doing a lot of work.

Or the committee thinks that the test score was lucky and not consistent with the rest of performance across other areas of evaluation.

It’s probably pretty rare to reject such students with strong stem awards and high MAP M. Outliers always exist but maybe with some reasons

[Anonymous]

You’re not “just curious.” You’re clearly upset your kid didn’t get in.

[Anonymous]

Straight As is meaningless given how easy it is to get there. And there are a ton of kids with MAP scores in that range. Clearly an impressive kid, but unfortunately not unique or special.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You’re not “just curious.” You’re clearly upset your kid didn’t get in.

Decisions aren't announced yet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Straight As is meaningless given how easy it is to get there. And there are a ton of kids with MAP scores in that range. Clearly an impressive kid, but unfortunately not unique or special.

Every child is unique and special.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Straight As is meaningless given how easy it is to get there. And there are a ton of kids with MAP scores in that range. Clearly an impressive kid, but unfortunately not unique or special.

This isn't Virginia. There aren't a "ton of kids" in that range in every grade level. There is a small community of math drillers.

But there are a ton of kids with lower scores that are still high enough to be in the pool completing for spots.

[Anonymous]

Depends OP is your kid coming from a private?
If so then straight A's means nothing.

Why are you asking now?

No one knows yet

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You’re not “just curious.” You’re clearly upset your kid didn’t get in.

I'm not OP, but I'm definitely upset my 7th grade child (290+, all As, and various Math awards) won't even have an access to Blair magnet due to the stupid region thing.