Accepted to Magnet and Coming From W-Feeder

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. So far, the only acceptance I see from W-feeder schools are:

I am very confused after reading all these messages. My son was recommended for Takoma Park and while he always scores 99% in MAP and gets straight A's, his cogat MCPS percentiles weren't as impressive (70's and 80's). We are Causasian in a W-feeder. Not sure why he was selected, to be honest, after seeing the scores for the kids who were not recommended.

Maybe we will hear more later today. Just curious what it takes to be an outlier to get into a MS magnet from a W-feeder school.

Maybe the 70% was an outlier in a sea of 99 percenters.

How is the 70% an outlier? What makes them an outlier? I assume there would be plenty of students close to 70% at a W-feeder school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. So far, the only acceptance I see from W-feeder schools are:

I am very confused after reading all these messages. My son was recommended for Takoma Park and while he always scores 99% in MAP and gets straight A's, his cogat MCPS percentiles weren't as impressive (70's and 80's). We are Causasian in a W-feeder. Not sure why he was selected, to be honest, after seeing the scores for the kids who were not recommended.

Maybe we will hear more later today. Just curious what it takes to be an outlier to get into a MS magnet from a W-feeder school.

Maybe the 70% was an outlier in a sea of 99 percenters.

How is the 70% an outlier? What makes them an outlier? I assume there would be plenty of students close to 70% at a W-feeder school.

There is a troll on this thread who keep insisting on people moving inbounds to get an advantage. I believe this is the same troll who is trying to use a sarcastic tone. It's quite distracting when someone posts something not that helpful to the question originally asked.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If W feeders have such a strong cohort, there's no need for kids in those school's to attend a magnet.

But there is a need for a magnet curriculum. Or, at least some sort of curriculum for gifted learners.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If W feeders have such a strong cohort, there's no need for kids in those school's to attend a magnet.

But there is a need for a magnet curriculum. Or, at least some sort of curriculum for gifted learners.

+1,000,000!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If W feeders have such a strong cohort, there's no need for kids in those school's to attend a magnet.

But there is a need for a magnet curriculum. Or, at least some sort of curriculum for gifted learners.

For example, the humanities class and the math class instituted at home middle schools, beginning last year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If W feeders have such a strong cohort, there's no need for kids in those school's to attend a magnet.

But there is a need for a magnet curriculum. Or, at least some sort of curriculum for gifted learners.

They’ve addressed that by adding extra classes at the cohorts.
I honestly don’t think it will matter what they do, no one will be happy if THEIR child doesn’t go to the magnet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

There is a troll on this thread who keep insisting on people moving inbounds to get an advantage. I believe this is the same troll who is trying to use a sarcastic tone. It's quite distracting when someone posts something not that helpful to the question originally asked.

It's not one troll, and in fact it's really not a troll at all.

MCPS is looking at the cohort of high-scoring kids at the home middle school. As we all know, there are lots of high-scoring kids at middle schools in Bethesda and Potomac. So if it's very important to you for your child to get into a middle-school magnet, and you live in Bethesda and Potomac, you can increase your child's chances by moving to an area where the home middle school has a smaller cohort.

[Anonymous]

MCPS is looking at the cohort of high-scoring kids at the home middle school. As we all know, there are lots of high-scoring kids at middle schools in Bethesda and Potomac. So if it's very important to you for your child to get into a middle-school magnet, and you live in Bethesda and Potomac, you can increase your child's chances by moving to an area where the home middle school has a smaller cohort.

Except if your child doesn't make the cut then you have a much bigger problem. There was a Piney Branch poster who shared how upset her son was that all his friends moved up into the CES/magnet classes and he was stuck with all the kids who misbehaved in class and didn't care about school.

Plus many of the white parents in Bethesda and Potomac, historically never opted for the magnet for various reasons (fear of kids going to a crime/high poverty area, long bus rides, interfering with sports, missing friends/social activities etc). Wealthy AA and Latino families haven't wanted to send their kids to the magnets for the same reasons as the white parents don't, plus they don't want their kids lumped in with the majority of other AA and Latinos are low performing and poor. Historically, the majority of applicants/admits from Bethesda and Potomac have been Asian. The Asians understand that MCPS doesn't want them in the magnets and don't trust that another new criteria wouldn't emerge to reduce their numbers if they moved east.

So yes, there are some white residents in TP and SS that are hoping more wealthy people will move there and bump up their property values because of this change but that isn't happening. People who are leaving are going private, to Howard county or VA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

MCPS is looking at the cohort of high-scoring kids at the home middle school. As we all know, there are lots of high-scoring kids at middle schools in Bethesda and Potomac. So if it's very important to you for your child to get into a middle-school magnet, and you live in Bethesda and Potomac, you can increase your child's chances by moving to an area where the home middle school has a smaller cohort.

Except if your child doesn't make the cut then you have a much bigger problem. There was a Piney Branch poster who shared how upset her son was that all his friends moved up into the CES/magnet classes and he was stuck with all the kids who misbehaved in class and didn't care about school.

Plus many of the white parents in Bethesda and Potomac, historically never opted for the magnet for various reasons (fear of kids going to a crime/high poverty area, long bus rides, interfering with sports, missing friends/social activities etc). Wealthy AA and Latino families haven't wanted to send their kids to the magnets for the same reasons as the white parents don't, plus they don't want their kids lumped in with the majority of other AA and Latinos are low performing and poor. Historically, the majority of applicants/admits from Bethesda and Potomac have been Asian. The Asians understand that MCPS doesn't want them in the magnets and don't trust that another new criteria wouldn't emerge to reduce their numbers if they moved east.

So yes, there are some white residents in TP and SS that are hoping more wealthy people will move there and bump up their property values because of this change but that isn't happening. People who are leaving are going private, to Howard county or VA.

Talk about generalizations.

By the way, the majority of Asian-American students in the downcounty MS magnet area don't live in Bethesda or Potomac.

[Anonymous]

Wondering if there is any updates to acceptances from W-feeder school, and what the stats are? Thanks.

[Anonymous]

Well one of the Potomac CES schools used to send over half its class to the MS magnet and those were mostly Asian kids. This school and these kids consistently have the highest PARCC and MAP scores in the county. With the new change, only 1 or 2 kids were admitted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well one of the Potomac CES schools used to send over half its class to the MS magnet and those were mostly Asian kids. This school and these kids consistently have the highest PARCC and MAP scores in the county. With the new change, only 1 or 2 kids were admitted.

Similar effects at some other CES schools under new admissions program.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well one of the Potomac CES schools used to send over half its class to the MS magnet and those were mostly Asian kids. This school and these kids consistently have the highest PARCC and MAP scores in the county. With the new change, only 1 or 2 kids were admitted.

You’re talking about last year. The question is this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well one of the Potomac CES schools used to send over half its class to the MS magnet and those were mostly Asian kids. This school and these kids consistently have the highest PARCC and MAP scores in the county. With the new change, only 1 or 2 kids were admitted.

Really? I thought they were mostly American kids?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well one of the Potomac CES schools used to send over half its class to the MS magnet and those were mostly Asian kids. This school and these kids consistently have the highest PARCC and MAP scores in the county. With the new change, only 1 or 2 kids were admitted.

You’re talking about last year. The question is this year.

Exactly, not that an anonymous post proves anything anyway, but so far no across the board 99s and rejection stories. There are people with one really good score and two mediocre scores, but not a slam dunk. There are people with well rounded but not perfect scores who are a little surprised their kid got in. Sounds like the process went smoother this year.