High school magnet waitlists

[Anonymous]

Child got and accepted Wheaton Engineering early but was offered bunch of less popular ones in July highest being Poolsville Humanities. Not sure why got offers when he had already accepted. I think stuff will get offered right before school. I always responded no immediately.

[Anonymous]

How is it possible your child is eligible for both Poolesville Humanities and Wheaton? I thought Poolesville Humanities was limited to upcounty and Wheaton to the DCC?

[Anonymous]

Must be a very unusual case where child resides upcounty but applied to, was accepted and attended, a lottery choice magnet like Argyle, Parkland, Loiderman in the DCC for 8th grade. Must have been some commute.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Must be a very unusual case where child resides upcounty but applied to, was accepted and attended, a lottery choice magnet like Argyle, Parkland, Loiderman in the DCC for 8th grade. Must have been some commute.

The discussion is about high school not MS, and I don't think they open it up for 8th graders but they might as multiple families left last year to return to their home schools from one school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There has been movement. people just don't want to update.

DCUM is not the center of the universe

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Must be a very unusual case where child resides upcounty but applied to, was accepted and attended, a lottery choice magnet like Argyle, Parkland, Loiderman in the DCC for 8th grade. Must have been some commute.

The discussion is about high school not MS, and I don't think they open it up for 8th graders but they might as multiple families left last year to return to their home schools from one school.

You misunderstood. PP was talking about eligibility for high school places though middle school placement that is different from their home school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Must be a very unusual case where child resides upcounty but applied to, was accepted and attended, a lottery choice magnet like Argyle, Parkland, Loiderman in the DCC for 8th grade. Must have been some commute.

The discussion is about high school not MS, and I don't think they open it up for 8th graders but they might as multiple families left last year to return to their home schools from one school.

You misunderstood. PP was talking about eligibility for high school places though middle school placement that is different from their home school.

Yes that PP is confused.

It's basically unheard of for a student to be eligible to apply to both the Poolesville Humanities magnet and Wheaton Engineering. Poolesville Humanities is limited to certain clusters that are more north like Clarksburg, Gaithersburg whereas Wheaton is limited to applications from certain clusters that are in the downcounty in and around the Silver Spring and Wheaton area.

There is an exception for kids that went to DCC schools are allowed to apply to DCC magnets though. However, a child who is upcounty is not eligible for TPMS and Eastern so they had to be in one of the magnets named above that are not application based. The other possibility is that OP could have originally been in the DCC, moved but had a COSA to remain at the DCC middle school through 8th or moved during 8th and was somehow eligible to apply for everything under the sun.

[Anonymous]

She could also be a troll.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She could also be a troll.

Russian or homegrown?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Child got and accepted Wheaton Engineering early but was offered bunch of less popular ones in July highest being Poolsville Humanities. Not sure why got offers when he had already accepted. I think stuff will get offered right before school. I always responded no immediately.

Congrats on Wheaton! Mine will be a senior this year in engineering magnet. It's a great school/program.

[Anonymous]

DS said his friend got off the RM waitlist very recently. We gave up CAP recently.

As for Poolesville and Wheaton: we considered applying to both because we planned to move, and we did. We were told we could.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DS said his friend got off the RM waitlist very recently. We gave up CAP recently.

As for Poolesville and Wheaton: we considered applying to both because we planned to move, and we did. We were told we could.

I'm really skeptical you're for real. The application system automatically determines your eligibility for programs. The portal does not even give you options outside your area. It would require someone to manually override the system at the central office level and if they allowed that everyone would just claim they "planned to move." Heck I'm not in the upcounty area but if my child were admitted to Poolesville Humanities I would move so is that considered "planned to move." If I were upcounty I would just claim I "planned to move" to Silver Spring to get access to Blair, CAP and Wheaton and all the other wonderful programs in the DCC.