CES Decision Letters

[Anonymous]

Rejected: 81% National, 37% MCPS

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My kids class has three (3) accepted; 2 waitlisted. (20910)

How do you know? My DS was accepted but is reluctant to tell others because he knows most did not get in. I don’t want to tell anyone for the same reason. I just assumed I would find out at the open house.

I am curious too -- did the school make some sort of announcement?

NP, but no. Parents talk, kids talk. Normally the outliers tend to gravitate towards each other so it's likely there is some sort of familiarity between the families.

Open house will also answer those questions. When my kid got in, most of the kids had been together since K and the parents addressed the issue carefully and respectfully.

Sometimes teachers will tell you the number total that got in without using names and some parents are friends and talk. I think last year there was more talk than usual because everyone was sharing how their child got in the wait pool due to the mistaken letters.

We did not find out until the open house who actually got in and it really hit home how random the whole thing can be. The few kid who did get in were top performers so no surprise there but there are easily 10 other kids in the grade at the same level as the kids who were admitted and their absence was jarring for DD.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My child was just rejected. National 96% MCPS 76%. Chevy Chase ES. I am so confused by this and reading other people’s scores. What a massive difference. Also he has straight A’s, 99th Map-R, 93 Map-M, iIn-View all high 90s except the teachers forgot to give one subset of the test last year to the entire class, don’t know if that matters? Rocked every math benmark test as well. We love our local school so alls we’ll that ends well I guess.

Why confused? For the more competitive CES everyone who got in had 99th percentile national scores. MCPS scores varied.

[Anonymous]

So today was rejections? Did anyone get an acceptance in today's mail?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My child was just rejected. National 96% MCPS 76%. Chevy Chase ES. I am so confused by this and reading other people’s scores. What a massive difference. Also he has straight A’s, 99th Map-R, 93 Map-M, iIn-View all high 90s except the teachers forgot to give one subset of the test last year to the entire class, don’t know if that matters? Rocked every math benmark test as well. We love our local school so alls we’ll that ends well I guess.

Why confused? For the more competitive CES everyone who got in had 99th percentile national scores. MCPS scores varied.

I wouldn't take these results to heart. You child could have easily scored 99th percentile on a different day. Cogat screener is not that reliable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My child was just rejected. National 96% MCPS 76%. Chevy Chase ES. I am so confused by this and reading other people’s scores. What a massive difference. Also he has straight A’s, 99th Map-R, 93 Map-M, iIn-View all high 90s except the teachers forgot to give one subset of the test last year to the entire class, don’t know if that matters? Rocked every math benmark test as well. We love our local school so alls we’ll that ends well I guess.

Those are low scores to be considered for a selective program, OP. No one with low scores is getting in.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How's this for dicotomy: I live upcounty - didn't even know my kid took the test (thought you had to register like I did with my older kid years ago). Definitely wouldn't let her take a bus to another school. Waitlisted with 56% mcps /89% national.

Anonymous wrote:70%MCPS and 88% National. Waitlisted.

Those two results seem a little low to be on the waitlist, bearing in mind there are many high achieving students in MCPS, and that the wait-lists are supposed to be small.
I hope they didn't make the same mistake as last year, and wait-listed all the rejections by mistake...

PP, you have to remember that there are trolls — and some of them are on CES and AP posts in DCUrbanmom forum. I’m sure someone feels like trolling on a Sunday night!

Keep the last bolded in mind, confused PP.

[Anonymous]

I wouldn't assume those low scores are from trolls but we know that different centers have different average scores. They were rezoned that way so the rich kids are competing mostly with rich kids and Chevy Chase is much harder to get into than some other schools.
Maybe that PP who posted the low waitlist scores comes from a less wealthy catchment area and the child has perfect MAP scores and straight As.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:99% national, 93% MCPS rejected at BE.

BE - Barnsley?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't assume those low scores are from trolls but we know that different centers have different average scores. They were rezoned that way so the rich kids are competing mostly with rich kids and Chevy Chase is much harder to get into than some other schools.
Maybe that PP who posted the low waitlist scores comes from a less wealthy catchment area and the child has perfect MAP scores and straight As.

Low scores may be the result of one test but not indicative of a child’s abilities. My child (rejected) scored low on the Cogat but has all As, 96-99% MAP consistently and high inView scores. I have a motivated child who consistently does well and just so happened not to score well on this particular test. Don’t assume trolls are posting low scores and don’t assume that someone with a low score isn’t a bright student overall.

[Anonymous]

Rejected: 80% MCPS, 97% National

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:99% national, 93% MCPS rejected at BE.

BE - Barnsley?

Bethesda Elementary.

[Anonymous]

Rejected from PBES. 87% MCPS 97% National.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rejected from PBES. 87% MCPS 97% National.

I imagine this means there will only be one class in the local center next year?

[Anonymous]

So, what does that mean if the national is way higher than mcps? I'm not appealing, just wondering what it means and how it relates to enrichment mentioned in the letter.