HS magnet programs — email error?

[Anonymous]

Your reasoning is sound but for people who have not been paying attention to the little nitpicky details of every communication with them and just see Feb. 18 on that email they may be confused. The decent thing would be to extend. I don't care. We have turned in our forms but I would say this is a matter of equity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your reasoning is sound but for people who have not been paying attention to the little nitpicky details of every communication with them and just see Feb. 18 on that email they may be confused. The decent thing would be to extend. I don't care. We have turned in our forms but I would say this is a matter of equity.

Right, but it’s unnecessary because the magnet coordinators have said it’s not a drop dead deadline anyway and that they will reach out to make sure that those who did not respond intended to turn it down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your reasoning is sound but for people who have not been paying attention to the little nitpicky details of every communication with them and just see Feb. 18 on that email they may be confused. The decent thing would be to extend. I don't care. We have turned in our forms but I would say this is a matter of equity.

Right, but it’s unnecessary because the magnet coordinators have said it’s not a drop dead deadline anyway and that they will reach out to make sure that those who did not respond intended to turn it down.

Not for my program. We had hundreds apply. Something seems to be up with the database log in from what I can tell.

[Anonymous]

We have never heard this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your reasoning is sound but for people who have not been paying attention to the little nitpicky details of every communication with them and just see Feb. 18 on that email they may be confused. The decent thing would be to extend. I don't care. We have turned in our forms but I would say this is a matter of equity.

Right, but it’s unnecessary because the magnet coordinators have said it’s not a drop dead deadline anyway and that they will reach out to make sure that those who did not respond intended to turn it down.

Not for my program. We had hundreds apply. Something seems to be up with the database log in from what I can tell.

Specifically the Blair magnet coordinator said they would reach out to people who hadn’t responded and also said that they had more than 800 applicants. I’m not sure which program you are responsible for but probably not one as popular as Blair.

[Anonymous]

the only error is the dates for accepting the invitation, otherwise you will only be allowed to accept or decline for the program you are invited, it will validate against the student id

[Anonymous]

And that these emails went to kids who were 'not recommended'.
That's an error I'd say.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And that these emails went to kids who were 'not recommended'.
That's an error I'd say.

+1. OP here. That's a pretty big error to tell a rejected applicant that MCPS's records show they were invited to a magnet program and asking them to accept or decline. I won't respond and submit the form because I know my kid was rejected and that this is an error, but in theory rejected kids could say they accept the offer, creating a mess for MCPS to clean up. If I and other PPs got this email I imagine it was mistakenly sent to all rejected or waitlisted kids. I'm kind of surprised there hasn't been a follow-up email yet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And that these emails went to kids who were 'not recommended'.
That's an error I'd say.

+1. OP here. That's a pretty big error to tell a rejected applicant that MCPS's records show they were invited to a magnet program and asking them to accept or decline. I won't respond and submit the form because I know my kid was rejected and that this is an error, but in theory rejected kids could say they accept the offer, creating a mess for MCPS to clean up. If I and other PPs got this email I imagine it was mistakenly sent to all rejected or waitlisted kids. I'm kind of surprised there hasn't been a follow-up email yet.

OP again. Just got the correction email. Looks like it went to all rejected, wait pool, and wait listed kids. Not a great look for MCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And that these emails went to kids who were 'not recommended'.
That's an error I'd say.

+1. OP here. That's a pretty big error to tell a rejected applicant that MCPS's records show they were invited to a magnet program and asking them to accept or decline. I won't respond and submit the form because I know my kid was rejected and that this is an error, but in theory rejected kids could say they accept the offer, creating a mess for MCPS to clean up. If I and other PPs got this email I imagine it was mistakenly sent to all rejected or waitlisted kids. I'm kind of surprised there hasn't been a follow-up email yet.

OP again. Just got the correction email. Looks like it went to all rejected, wait pool, and wait listed kids. Not a great look for MCPS.

This is a shame, and it's probably worth CO trying to figure out why the distribution lists are so easy to mix up. If folks recall, this year's 8th graders are the same cohort that received mistaken admissions notices for the CES. It was a long time ago, and just dumb human/electronic error, but it was pretty rough on the kids at the time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And that these emails went to kids who were 'not recommended'.
That's an error I'd say.

+1. OP here. That's a pretty big error to tell a rejected applicant that MCPS's records show they were invited to a magnet program and asking them to accept or decline. I won't respond and submit the form because I know my kid was rejected and that this is an error, but in theory rejected kids could say they accept the offer, creating a mess for MCPS to clean up. If I and other PPs got this email I imagine it was mistakenly sent to all rejected or waitlisted kids. I'm kind of surprised there hasn't been a follow-up email yet.

OP again. Just got the correction email. Looks like it went to all rejected, wait pool, and wait listed kids. Not a great look for MCPS.

What does it say? My kid was accepted so didn’t receive but I also thought the message was concerning because it implied he hadnt accepted (and also declined) when he had.

[Anonymous]

WTH is it with these people? A few years ago they messed up similarly at the CES level.

[Anonymous]

My daughter's year they had to let in the entire waitpool for CAP because of some sort of testing irregularity. My kid oddly did not even finish the test and told me other kids got more time. I called when I found out they were letting in the waitpool, but, they wouldn't discuss what the actual issue was.

[Anonymous]

This is part of what's so frustrating for the case of those kids not selected or placed in the wait pool. How are we supposed to trust this process when it's not transparent AND so many mistakes are made. For a moment yesterday my child was really happy because they thought they had been accepted, but no, just another mistake.

[Anonymous]

I'm really PP. I wish they would fix this. They don't seem to understand how fragile kids are right now.