In pool email just came

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We got ours today in my daughter’s backpack. We are Oakton Pyramid. She scored a 138 composite but we didn’t get an in pool email. Could the cut off this year been higher than 132?

The most likely scenario is that Gatehouse has an incorrect or outdated email address, or the email was delivered to your spam folder.

So far 2 people claim that they had a score over 132 and were not notified of being in-pool.

I confirmed with our AART person and 138 (despite being 99th percentile) was not in pool this year. Apparently the pool is smaller than past years.

[Anonymous]

That is weird. 138 cogat is great. How much was the NNAT score?
May be you need both nnat and cogat to be 99 percentile to be in pool this year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We got ours today in my daughter’s backpack. We are Oakton Pyramid. She scored a 138 composite but we didn’t get an in pool email. Could the cut off this year been higher than 132?

The most likely scenario is that Gatehouse has an incorrect or outdated email address, or the email was delivered to your spam folder.

So far 2 people claim that they had a score over 132 and were not notified of being in-pool.

I confirmed with our AART person and 138 (despite being 99th percentile) was not in pool this year. Apparently the pool is smaller than past years.

Wow. So they must be using local norms rather than national everywhere this year. Sounds like your school had some very high scores.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We got ours today in my daughter’s backpack. We are Oakton Pyramid. She scored a 138 composite but we didn’t get an in pool email. Could the cut off this year been higher than 132?

The most likely scenario is that Gatehouse has an incorrect or outdated email address, or the email was delivered to your spam folder.

So far 2 people claim that they had a score over 132 and were not notified of being in-pool.

I confirmed with our AART person and 138 (despite being 99th percentile) was not in pool this year. Apparently the pool is smaller than past years.

Huh? I am confused 138 and not in pool? This doesn't sound right.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We got ours today in my daughter’s backpack. We are Oakton Pyramid. She scored a 138 composite but we didn’t get an in pool email. Could the cut off this year been higher than 132?

The most likely scenario is that Gatehouse has an incorrect or outdated email address, or the email was delivered to your spam folder.

So far 2 people claim that they had a score over 132 and were not notified of being in-pool.

I confirmed with our AART person and 138 (despite being 99th percentile) was not in pool this year. Apparently the pool is smaller than past years.

Huh? I am confused 138 and not in pool? This doesn't sound right.

Doesn’t FCPS post the cutoff for the pool somewhere?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We got ours today in my daughter’s backpack. We are Oakton Pyramid. She scored a 138 composite but we didn’t get an in pool email. Could the cut off this year been higher than 132?

The most likely scenario is that Gatehouse has an incorrect or outdated email address, or the email was delivered to your spam folder.

So far 2 people claim that they had a score over 132 and were not notified of being in-pool.

I confirmed with our AART person and 138 (despite being 99th percentile) was not in pool this year. Apparently the pool is smaller than past years.

Wow. So they must be using local norms rather than national everywhere this year. Sounds like your school had some very high scores.

Is the 138 at a high performing center school? I thought they would use 132 for the county pool and then local norms for lower performing schools to widen the pool.

[Anonymous]

They must be using the local norms at both lower- and higher-performing schools. Sounds like the standard 132 cut-off is out the window.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They must be using the local norms at both lower- and higher-performing schools. Sounds like the standard 132 cut-off is out the window.

It's hard to believe that scoring at 99th percentile is not considered "in-pool", even though 99th has a low ceiling.

[Anonymous]

OMG! In high performing schools even 99 percentile score of 138 is not enough to be in pool? My guess is all high performing schools may have a new cut off of 140.

[Anonymous]

I don’t understand why they can’t be more transparent

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why they can’t be more transparent

That and consistent (some have gotten cogat score, many have not).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why they can’t be more transparent

If it’s a center school with high performing kids and let’s say’s 4 other school feeds into it AAP
Level IV kids from 3rd grade.
Consider this scenario-
center school cutoff 140
Out of 4 schools that feed into it 2 have a cut off so 140 and other 2 have a cut off of 132, since they are not that high performing. The kids who come from the two schools with 132 cutoff will take the spots of kids from other 3 schools who have scored between 132 and 139.
This can happen, right? This is the reason they can’t be transparent.

[Anonymous]

Somebody should do a FOIA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Somebody should do a FOIA.

If you do that you will blow the lid off the biggest anti Asian discrimination scandal in the history of the state

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why they can’t be more transparent

If it’s a center school with high performing kids and let’s say’s 4 other school feeds into it AAP
Level IV kids from 3rd grade.
Consider this scenario-
center school cutoff 140
Out of 4 schools that feed into it 2 have a cut off so 140 and other 2 have a cut off of 132, since they are not that high performing. The kids who come from the two schools with 132 cutoff will take the spots of kids from other 3 schools who have scored between 132 and 139.
This can happen, right? This is the reason they can’t be transparent.

Yes, but the parents will still parent-refer, so the question is if they are really going to keep kids out because they scored a 135 vs. 140. Are they going to decrease the total number admitted?