Magnet MS results - Takoma Park & Eastern - anyone heard today?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DC just came home from Cold Spring CES, and said only 2 kids out of 55 were accepted to one of the programs. The rest got rejection letters yesterday. I really am shocked. Since they recently studied the Constitution, the kids decided under the first amendment it was constitutional to protest via petition, which they have now done

I love this.
2/55 is such a low rate.
I have to say, probably a lot of parents whose children made it into the HGC/CES in elementary were probably feeling secure that their children's giftedness was recognized as such. It's a shock being told that you are now 'not gifted enough'. If the funnel from HGC/CES to Magnet MS is so narrow (e.g. huge # of HGC to very few going to Magnets), that doesn't seem right. Way off balance. My child is not at a HGC as we've moved from out of town, but I feel for the parents whose children are in HGC and now are told, 'this is the end of the road for the nurturing of your kid's giftedness'.

PP here, I meant I love the petition idea, and meanwhile, sadly, 2/55 is understandably very disappointing for them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DD did not get accepted into either program. TPMS is our home school. She was waitlisted for CES. Her scores are 95/99/99/99 with all As. Just FYI. I'm sure she'll start talking about who got in in the next few days.

Thanks for the update! Did you get your letter today?

Yesterday

So you're saying that your child was waitlisted for CES when applying a couple of years ago for the CES programs? Assuming she is not waitlisted for either magnet?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DD did not get accepted into either program. TPMS is our home school. She was waitlisted for CES. Her scores are 95/99/99/99 with all As. Just FYI. I'm sure she'll start talking about who got in in the next few days.

Ouch! Sorry, PP, that stinks. If you don't get in from a faraway school, at least you won't have to commute, but a home school? And I was under the impression that it's way easier to get into the program from within your home school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DD did not get accepted into either program. TPMS is our home school. She was waitlisted for CES. Her scores are 95/99/99/99 with all As. Just FYI. I'm sure she'll start talking about who got in in the next few days.

Ouch! Sorry, PP, that stinks. If you don't get in from a faraway school, at least you won't have to commute, but a home school? And I was under the impression that it's way easier to get into the program from within your home school.

My son's friend also got rejected-- TPMS home is his school and overall score 99%

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DD did not get accepted into either program. TPMS is our home school. She was waitlisted for CES. Her scores are 95/99/99/99 with all As. Just FYI. I'm sure she'll start talking about who got in in the next few days.

Thanks for the update! Did you get your letter today?

Yesterday

So you're saying that your child was waitlisted for CES when applying a couple of years ago for the CES programs? Assuming she is not waitlisted for either magnet?

Yes, she was waitlisted for CES/HGC 2 years ago. She was not waitlisted this year.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Whoever asked about the mail today, yes we got our letter today. It's a big 8.5x11 envelope.

Seriously. You wrote this and didn't provide more details? Acceptance ot not? From what elementary school? Eastern or Takoma?

Acceptance to TPMS.

Jeez! At least tell us the scores!

At least we know it's all about envelope size. Those probably take longer in the mail, which explains why we mostly know about rejections at this point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC just came home from Cold Spring CES, and said only 2 kids out of 55 were accepted to one of the programs. The rest got rejection letters yesterday. I really am shocked. Since they recently studied the Constitution, the kids decided under the first amendment it was constitutional to protest via petition, which they have now done

I love this.
2/55 is such a low rate.
I have to say, probably a lot of parents whose children made it into the HGC/CES in elementary were probably feeling secure that their children's giftedness was recognized as such. It's a shock being told that you are now 'not gifted enough'. If the funnel from HGC/CES to Magnet MS is so narrow (e.g. huge # of HGC to very few going to Magnets), that doesn't seem right. Way off balance. My child is not at a HGC as we've moved from out of town, but I feel for the parents whose children are in HGC and now are told, 'this is the end of the road for the nurturing of your kid's giftedness'.

That does seem really hard, and I feel for those parents and kids (i have a fourth grader in the CES and am adjusting expectations for next year based on all the news in this thread).

If the "home school peer group" is really a factor, I wonder how much that's affected by the fact that the 55 Cold Spring CES kids end up in 3 middle schools (I think), while, for example, the 55 Drew CES kids are spread over 6 middle schools. In the Cold Spring case, you're more likely to have a larger high-performing cohort together (although I understand that this doesn't address the different curriculum at the middle school magnets).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC just came home from Cold Spring CES, and said only 2 kids out of 55 were accepted to one of the programs. The rest got rejection letters yesterday. I really am shocked. Since they recently studied the Constitution, the kids decided under the first amendment it was constitutional to protest via petition, which they have now done

I love this.
2/55 is such a low rate.
I have to say, probably a lot of parents whose children made it into the HGC/CES in elementary were probably feeling secure that their children's giftedness was recognized as such. It's a shock being told that you are now 'not gifted enough'. If the funnel from HGC/CES to Magnet MS is so narrow (e.g. huge # of HGC to very few going to Magnets), that doesn't seem right. Way off balance. My child is not at a HGC as we've moved from out of town, but I feel for the parents whose children are in HGC and now are told, 'this is the end of the road for the nurturing of your kid's giftedness'.

That does seem really hard, and I feel for those parents and kids (i have a fourth grader in the CES and am adjusting expectations for next year based on all the news in this thread).

If the "home school peer group" is really a factor, I wonder how much that's affected by the fact that the 55 Cold Spring CES kids end up in 3 middle schools (I think), while, for example, the 55 Drew CES kids are spread over 6 middle schools. In the Cold Spring case, you're more likely to have a larger high-performing cohort together (although I understand that this doesn't address the different curriculum at the middle school magnets).

Yes, that does make sense. Now all MCPS needs to do is make sure a comparable track of accelerated instruction is available at the home schools!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC just came home from Cold Spring CES, and said only 2 kids out of 55 were accepted to one of the programs. The rest got rejection letters yesterday. I really am shocked. Since they recently studied the Constitution, the kids decided under the first amendment it was constitutional to protest via petition, which they have now done

I love this.
2/55 is such a low rate.
I have to say, probably a lot of parents whose children made it into the HGC/CES in elementary were probably feeling secure that their children's giftedness was recognized as such. It's a shock being told that you are now 'not gifted enough'. If the funnel from HGC/CES to Magnet MS is so narrow (e.g. huge # of HGC to very few going to Magnets), that doesn't seem right. Way off balance. My child is not at a HGC as we've moved from out of town, but I feel for the parents whose children are in HGC and now are told, 'this is the end of the road for the nurturing of your kid's giftedness'.

That does seem really hard, and I feel for those parents and kids (i have a fourth grader in the CES and am adjusting expectations for next year based on all the news in this thread).

If the "home school peer group" is really a factor, I wonder how much that's affected by the fact that the 55 Cold Spring CES kids end up in 3 middle schools (I think), while, for example, the 55 Drew CES kids are spread over 6 middle schools. In the Cold Spring case, you're more likely to have a larger high-performing cohort together (although I understand that this doesn't address the different curriculum at the middle school magnets).

Yes, that does make sense. Now all MCPS needs to do is make sure a comparable track of accelerated instruction is available at the home schools!

If comparable track of accelerated instruction can be available in home school, the huge turn down rate for kids from HGC will actually become a good news then.

[Anonymous]

DD just arrived from HGC/CES at Barnsley and shared that the majority of her class have received letters, either rejections or waitlisted. No acceptances so far. Only a handful haven’t heard from MCPS. We’re one of them ?

[Anonymous]

What all this information shows is that the kids in the county who qualify for "advanced" magnet level teaching are woefully under-served due to the lack of seats in the few schools who can provide that advanced level teaching.

What will happen next?

[Anonymous]

The Cold Spring results are very interesting. Clearly it would be difficult to accept all 55 applicants into ms magnet. Some criteria must be established to decide. My understanding is that Cold Spring has many high performing kids. Hopefully, a strong peer group supported by strong teachers can provide a similarly enriching experience for all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Cold Spring results are very interesting. Clearly it would be difficult to accept all 55 applicants into ms magnet. Some criteria must be established to decide. My understanding is that Cold Spring has many high performing kids. Hopefully, a strong peer group supported by strong teachers can provide a similarly enriching experience for all.

How could it be a similarly enriching experience if the curriculum is so different?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What all this information shows is that the kids in the county who qualify for "advanced" magnet level teaching are woefully under-served due to the lack of seats in the few schools who can provide that advanced level teaching.

What will happen next?

Or what they use for testing is too easy, so the result can't differentiate giftedness. Just like MCPS's grading system. What a joke!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What all this information shows is that the kids in the county who qualify for "advanced" magnet level teaching are woefully under-served due to the lack of seats in the few schools who can provide that advanced level teaching.

What will happen next?

Or what they use for testing is too easy, so the result can't differentiate giftedness. Just like MCPS's grading system. What a joke!

If the selection criteria has not been changed, we shouldn't expect a huge decline of acceptance rate in HGCs.