Is anyone looking at how MCPS handles National Merit commendations …?

[Anonymous]

Do people even put Commended on their applications? I have no idea if the school announced it or not. She calculated it herself. Missed semi finalist by 1 point. Currently at an Ivy.
Life goes on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our MCPS school was late handing them out. But you can easily look up what the cutoff is and you know if your child got commended. My DC put it on his application before getting formal notice from school because his score was above cutoff so it was clear he would get it. If your kid is smart enough to get commended I think he or she can google what the cutoff is.

This! Having the school being responsible for "notifying" students about this is so unnecessary. This should just be something the students can see in their College Board portal and download a certificate if they want to.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Isn't this "achievement" like really nothing at all?

Yep. It's like a consolation prize

It’s the bronze medal. 🥉

Parents/students are mad because they didn’t get “official” notification before Nov 1 so they could include it in college applications and NoW tHeIr KiD wOn’T gEt InTo HaRvArD. As if that one small grain of sand was going to tip the scale in their favor over other TJ students in the great college application battle.

Nothing you said makes the delayed notification okay. Wtf is wrong with you. Also this is so obviously anti-Asian racism. Just like with the school shutdowns, a whole lot of “progressives” are revealing themselves to be toxic racists and misogynists who feel totally justified in their gross attitudes because Trump or something.

Delightful false equivalencies! Wow.

[Anonymous]

A student who achieves National Merit Commended is likely to have plenty of other good things to show in their academic record - including, of course, the strong test scores that earned them that status to begin with. If it were my kid not having gotten the letter, yes, I'd be angry and want to take steps to help ensure that this never happened again. But I would not tbh be worried that this specific individual situation had cost them something that they were well positioned to earn (admission to a given school, an award of some kind). There are exceptions to every generalization, though, and given the numbers, there is probably someone out there who missed out on something - which is why National Merit should be sending out their own information directly to students _as_well_as_ notifying the schools. It doesn't take much imagination to figure out how to do that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Poolesville handed out promptly. No issue.

As did Blair.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do people even put Commended on their applications? I have no idea if the school announced it or not. She calculated it herself. Missed semi finalist by 1 point. Currently at an Ivy.
Life goes on.

I never did even though I had that award. In fact, I never really gave it much thought.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Isn't this "achievement" like really nothing at all?

Yep. It's like a consolation prize

It’s the bronze medal. 🥉

Parents/students are mad because they didn’t get “official” notification before Nov 1 so they could include it in college applications and NoW tHeIr KiD wOn’T gEt InTo HaRvArD. As if that one small grain of sand was going to tip the scale in their favor over other TJ students in the great college application battle.

Nothing you said makes the delayed notification okay. Wtf is wrong with you. Also this is so obviously anti-Asian racism. Just like with the school shutdowns, a whole lot of “progressives” are revealing themselves to be toxic racists and misogynists who feel totally justified in their gross attitudes because Trump or something.

Delightful false equivalencies! Wow.

They seriously need to put down the pipe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Isn't this "achievement" like really nothing at all?

Yep. It's like a consolation prize

It’s the bronze medal. 🥉

Parents/students are mad because they didn’t get “official” notification before Nov 1 so they could include it in college applications and NoW tHeIr KiD wOn’T gEt InTo HaRvArD. As if that one small grain of sand was going to tip the scale in their favor over other TJ students in the great college application battle.

Nothing you said makes the delayed notification okay. Wtf is wrong with you. Also this is so obviously anti-Asian racism. Just like with the school shutdowns, a whole lot of “progressives” are revealing themselves to be toxic racists and misogynists who feel totally justified in their gross attitudes because Trump or something.

THIS!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Isn't this "achievement" like really nothing at all?

Yep. It's like a consolation prize

It’s the bronze medal. 🥉

Parents/students are mad because they didn’t get “official” notification before Nov 1 so they could include it in college applications and NoW tHeIr KiD wOn’T gEt InTo HaRvArD. As if that one small grain of sand was going to tip the scale in their favor over other TJ students in the great college application battle.

Nothing you said makes the delayed notification okay. Wtf is wrong with you. Also this is so obviously anti-Asian racism. Just like with the school shutdowns, a whole lot of “progressives” are revealing themselves to be toxic racists and misogynists who feel totally justified in their gross attitudes because Trump or something.

THIS!

How is it anti-Asian racism? Given the demographics of the school, weren't the majority of students whose feelings they were trying to spare be Asian?

[Anonymous]

I remember putting Commended Scholar on my resume and college apps. But once I got out of college I didn’t care and no one else did either.

Colleges know the cutoffs on the PSAT and SAT for these titles. There is really not much point putting them resumes and applications. They exist purely to make kids feel better about themselves.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Isn't this "achievement" like really nothing at all?

Yep. It's like a consolation prize

It’s the bronze medal. 🥉

Parents/students are mad because they didn’t get “official” notification before Nov 1 so they could include it in college applications and NoW tHeIr KiD wOn’T gEt InTo HaRvArD. As if that one small grain of sand was going to tip the scale in their favor over other TJ students in the great college application battle.

Nobody really even cares about this. It's just a made-up issue by some RWNJs as payback for the admission changes that reduced cheating on admissions that had been going on for years. They're still mad they can't as easily buy their way into TJ.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:… or is the concern limited to NOVA, most notably FCPS?

We should ask McCarthy to launch a house select committee to probe this immediately! I heard these commendations sat on an administrator's desk for a whole two hours before they were given out! It's racially motivated or discrimination since I don't like them!