CES Decision Letters
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Anonymous
Our child's last name is K, we live in 20814, and received an acceptance today. |
Anonymous
The FAQ says the waitlist is typically 20-35 for each center. Last year there was a mistake with the letters and everybody who wasn't accepted initially got waitlist letters. Presumably they triple-checked that this year. |
Anonymous
| Accepted to Barnsley: 98/94 percent. |
Anonymous
Overheard that lots of 99% kids feeding Cold Spring CES got waitlisted last year. |
Anonymous
[Post New]03/30/2019 14:25 Subject: Re:CES Decision Letters [Up] Anonymous Acceptance. 20850. Cold Spring. 99th National, 94th MCPS. |
Anonymous
They do try to balance out the gender. In my kid's year, there were 60% boys versus 40% girls so they might be trying to balance it out. |
Anonymous
Remember that the test is only one factor in admission, and the posts here don't tell you about the others: Grade 3 report card, percentile ranks for the MAP- R and MAP-M, student services (ESOL, 504, FARMS), the non-scored student questionnaire, and the home school cohort. I feel like the test scores here are useful in understanding the type of score needed as a threshold, but there's more to the picture than just the score. |
Anonymous
| Has anyone received rejection letters? We didn’t get a letter but a friend in the same zip code got a waitlist. Our eldest went to CES so we’re really hoping the youngest can too. |
Anonymous
This is the third ask in this thread and no one has reported a rejection. I assume ours is coming this week. |
Anonymous
Yes, and only the students who took the test are included in the MCPS percentile... and the students in a school with "similar" socio-economic stats. So, the MCPS group is much smaller and is a "selective" group to begin with, which explains why MCPS percentiles are typically lower than national where it includes all students of the same age/grade who took the same test at a similar time. Many systems use the test system wide with all students, so not just a selected group of high performing students. |
Anonymous
No. It is universal screening unless opted out by parents. the whole point is to cast a wider net. So there are more students taking the test and they can catch more high potential students. At the same time, they will catch more lower potential students who maybe 5% National, 2% MCPS All Grade 3 students will be reviewed for the CES process and notified in early February 2019. At that time, parents will have the option to decline or request consideration. |
Anonymous
Yes, but the universal review was the letter, not the actual test. |
Anonymous
| Yeah, there probably wasn't anybody tested who would score a 5% on the national norm, but if they took all the scores and turned them into local norms using the full scale of 0-100% there have to be some low local scores. I wonder if they reported single digits to anyone, or if they had a floor on how low they reported (like <20% or something like that). |
Anonymous
+1 The universal review is of the existing data, they review all of that and invite those who meet a certain threshold to test - or be "further considered", the universal screening in third grade does not test everyone, so everyone is not included in the MCPS percentiles, only those who tested, who are presumably those the system thought or whose parents felt had a shot at attending a CES. |
Anonymous
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Right, so the national norms should theoretically show decently high percentages for everyone tested (50th percentile or above at least.)
Obviously in this high performing pool the MCPS percentile score should range from 1 percentile to 99th percentile but as PP pointed out it's unclear whether they would actually report a 1 percentile score. |