Middle School magnet decisions?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a question regarding the magnet process. Once, the test results are mailed , do you have to apply (if you are eligible?)

Test results are not mailed. You are either accepted or not.

The CogAT scores with number of correct answers showed up in the parent portal. We then received a recommendation letter that also included the MCPS percentiles (and national's as well) in the mail.

My DD with slow processing speed didn’t finish any of the sections. Does it say correct/wrong/unanswered, or just number correct?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a question regarding the magnet process. Once, the test results are mailed , do you have to apply (if you are eligible?)

Test results are not mailed. You are either accepted or not.

The CogAT scores with number of correct answers showed up in the parent portal. We then received a recommendation letter that also included the MCPS percentiles (and national's as well) in the mail.

My DD with slow processing speed didn’t finish any of the sections. Does it say correct/wrong/unanswered, or just number correct?

It tells you the total number of questions, the number attempted by your student, and the number correct. My kid is somewhat slow with math and only attempted 36 questions, but got 35 of them correct -- that was more useful for me to know than just being told she got 36 out of 52 correct.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a question regarding the magnet process. Once, the test results are mailed , do you have to apply (if you are eligible?)

Test results are not mailed. You are either accepted or not.

The CogAT scores with number of correct answers showed up in the parent portal. We then received a recommendation letter that also included the MCPS percentiles (and national's as well) in the mail.

My DD with slow processing speed didn’t finish any of the sections. Does it say correct/wrong/unanswered, or just number correct?

It tells you the total number of questions, the number attempted by your student, and the number correct. My kid is somewhat slow with math and only attempted 36 questions, but got 35 of them correct -- that was more useful for me to know than just being told she got 36 out of 52 correct.

Cool. That’s what I’d like to know as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Three years ago, test scores were mailed along with the median accepted scores

That was the old system.

[Anonymous]

So what happens this year?

Do you find out test results?

Are magnet acceptances just magically mailed
one day in January?

Is there a “you’re being considered” phase or just a single communication that is final?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So what happens this year?

Do you find out test results?

Are magnet acceptances just magically mailed
one day in January?

Is there a “you’re being considered” phase or just a single communication that is final?

Just in, out or waitlisted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So what happens this year?

Do you find out test results?

Are magnet acceptances just magically mailed
one day in January?

Is there a “you’re being considered” phase or just a single communication that is final?

Just in, out or waitlisted.

And that 'just in, out or waitlisted' applies to two different schools. A kid may be 'in or waitlisted' at TPMS and out at Eastern, and vice versa. Some kids, reportedly, got in both - but I don't think those exist in real world.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So what happens this year?

Do you find out test results?

Are magnet acceptances just magically mailed
one day in January?

Is there a “you’re being considered” phase or just a single communication that is final?

Just in, out or waitlisted.

And that 'just in, out or waitlisted' applies to two different schools. A kid may be 'in or waitlisted' at TPMS and out at Eastern, and vice versa. Some kids, reportedly, got in both - but I don't think those exist in real world.

Last year we were told that around 80 kids (including mine) were accepted to both Eastern and TP.

[Anonymous]

It’s been a few years, but for DS’s cohort, there were definitely kids admitted to both programs at Clemente (when both were housed there). That’s evidently where some of the gender skew occurred. The program/county tried to admit reasonably equal numbers of boys and girls to each program, but then boys admitted to both tended to choose Math/Sci and girls admitted to both tended to choose Humanities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So what happens this year?

Do you find out test results?

Are magnet acceptances just magically mailed
one day in January?

Is there a “you’re being considered” phase or just a single communication that is final?

Just in, out or waitlisted.

And that 'just in, out or waitlisted' applies to two different schools. A kid may be 'in or waitlisted' at TPMS and out at Eastern, and vice versa. Some kids, reportedly, got in both - but I don't think those exist in real world.

Last year we were told that around 80 kids (including mine) were accepted to both Eastern and TP.

Yes it seemed like almost everyone we know who got in round 1 was accepted to both. This probably helped MCPS say that they offered admission to kids from almost all 78 feeder schools. But then many many kids came from appeals and waitlist, which has replaced the old application system.

[Anonymous]

My daughter got accepted to both mlk and Clemente last year and we heard from mcps in the mail around the third week of January.

[Anonymous]

The CogAT scores with number of correct answers showed up in the parent portal. We then received a recommendation letter that also included the MCPS percentiles (and national's as well) in the mail.

Thank you so much for the information, also please let us know, under which section in the parent portal do they post the results?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
The CogAT scores with number of correct answers showed up in the parent portal. We then received a recommendation letter that also included the MCPS percentiles (and national's as well) in the mail.

Thank you so much for the information, also please let us know, under which section in the parent portal do they post the results?

It will show up in the Document Library area.

[Anonymous]

Our home MS need us to send the course registration form back by Jan 15th? Will we know magnet selection decision before that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a question regarding the magnet process. Once, the test results are mailed , do you have to apply (if you are eligible?)

Test results are not mailed. You are either accepted or not.

The CogAT scores with number of correct answers showed up in the parent portal. We then received a recommendation letter that also included the MCPS percentiles (and national's as well) in the mail.

My DD with slow processing speed didn’t finish any of the sections. Does it say correct/wrong/unanswered, or just number correct?

It tells you the total number of questions, the number attempted by your student, and the number correct. My kid is somewhat slow with math and only attempted 36 questions, but got 35 of them correct -- that was more useful for me to know than just being told she got 36 out of 52 correct.

Is that just informational, or does it affect the scoring? If you get 35 out of 36 answered, is that better, worse, or the same as answering all 52 and getting 35 right?