HS magnets question: Do you even bother applying if your child has a B?

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Anonymous wrote:A single B in MS? Yes, we did and DD was accepted at 3 STEM magnets.

Three??

Are you the same person in the longer HS magnet thread who is shocked that magnet students get Bs? LOL

The person who said that was a magnet parent. Also it’s irrelevant to the above post. What are you even talking about??

First, you only need to use one question mark. Really, it suffices.

Second, there’s another lengthy thread on HS magnets already in this forum. In it, a PP was sincerely surprised to hear that kids in middle school magnet programs get Bs. Truly. The whole “Three??” had a very similar tone.

I saw a breakdown on magnet HS gpa's somewhere not too long ago. I remember only 19 of 100 kids had an unweighted 4.5 or higher.

On the one hand this forum insists that everything gets all As and getting all As is no big deal. On the other they say that it’s common for magnet students not to get all As. It’s not. That is perpetuated by one magnet parent here whose kid is struggling in computer science.

We were tapping any middle school magnet students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid had plenty of Bs and even a couple Cs in the TP magnet. He got rejected from Blair stem magnet, but waitlisted at Wheaton stem magnet.

This is spring 2021.

So I would think a kid with one B has a chance, if my kid could get waitlisted.

And yes we are white.

What subjects were they in? They don’t even have access to non-STEM subject grades. What was his MAP-M, out of interest?

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Anonymous wrote:A single B in MS? Yes, we did and DD was accepted at 3 STEM magnets.

Three??

Are you the same person in the longer HS magnet thread who is shocked that magnet students get Bs? LOL

The person who said that was a magnet parent. Also it’s irrelevant to the above post. What are you even talking about??

First, you only need to use one question mark. Really, it suffices.

Second, there’s another lengthy thread on HS magnets already in this forum. In it, a PP was sincerely surprised to hear that kids in middle school magnet programs get Bs. Truly. The whole “Three??” had a very similar tone.

I saw a breakdown on magnet HS gpa's somewhere not too long ago. I remember only 19 of 100 kids had an unweighted 4.5 or higher.

On the one hand this forum insists that everything gets all As and getting all As is no big deal. On the other they say that it’s common for magnet students not to get all As. It’s not. That is perpetuated by one magnet parent here whose kid is struggling in computer science.

We were tapping any middle school magnet students.

Ugh, typos. That was - talking about middle school students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid had plenty of Bs and even a couple Cs in the TP magnet. He got rejected from Blair stem magnet, but waitlisted at Wheaton stem magnet.

This is spring 2021.

So I would think a kid with one B has a chance, if my kid could get waitlisted.

And yes we are white.

With those grades, you really expected your child to be accepted? Sounds like they would have been better off not in Magnet.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My kid had plenty of Bs and even a couple Cs in the TP magnet. He got rejected from Blair stem magnet, but waitlisted at Wheaton stem magnet.

This is spring 2021.

So I would think a kid with one B has a chance, if my kid could get waitlisted.

And yes we are white.

With those grades, you really expected your child to be accepted? Sounds like they would have been better off not in Magnet.

Don’t be mean.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid had plenty of Bs and even a couple Cs in the TP magnet. He got rejected from Blair stem magnet, but waitlisted at Wheaton stem magnet.

This is spring 2021.

So I would think a kid with one B has a chance, if my kid could get waitlisted.

And yes we are white.

With those grades, you really expected your child to be accepted? Sounds like they would have been better off not in Magnet.

Don’t be mean.

Its not being mean but those grades don't justify a spot at Blair. If my kid struggled that much, I would have pulled them to the regular program.

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Anonymous wrote:Nobody knows exactly how the applicants are evaluated, and the application process is not that difficult (a couple of short prompts and a slightly longer essay). If your child is interested, I would still encourage them to apply.

This is the right answer. The application is easy. No harm in applying.

Agreed. Mine had at least 1 visible B in Comp Sci, I think. (Had a few other quarter Bs but pulled semester As).

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Anonymous wrote:My kid had plenty of Bs and even a couple Cs in the TP magnet. He got rejected from Blair stem magnet, but waitlisted at Wheaton stem magnet.

This is spring 2021.

So I would think a kid with one B has a chance, if my kid could get waitlisted.

And yes we are white.

With those grades, you really expected your child to be accepted? Sounds like they would have been better off not in Magnet.

Don’t be mean.

Its not being mean but those grades don't justify a spot at Blair. If my kid struggled that much, I would have pulled them to the regular program.

DP. Why do you assume pp struggled with content and not some other issue? How about you just refrain from trying to assess with limited data (& when no one asked for your judgment)?

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Anonymous wrote:A single B in MS? Yes, we did and DD was accepted at 3 STEM magnets.

Three??

Are you the same person in the longer HS magnet thread who is shocked that magnet students get Bs? LOL

The person who said that was a magnet parent. Also it’s irrelevant to the above post. What are you even talking about??

First, you only need to use one question mark. Really, it suffices.

Second, there’s another lengthy thread on HS magnets already in this forum. In it, a PP was sincerely surprised to hear that kids in middle school magnet programs get Bs. Truly. The whole “Three??” had a very similar tone.

I saw a breakdown on magnet HS gpa's somewhere not too long ago. I remember only 19 of 100 kids had an unweighted 4.5 or higher.

On the one hand this forum insists that everything gets all As and getting all As is no big deal. On the other they say that it’s common for magnet students not to get all As. It’s not. That is perpetuated by one magnet parent here whose kid is struggling in computer science.

Lots of kids in magnets get Bs. My Blair kid got a couple. Now at Ivy.
Lots of kids in magnets get straight As as well, but lots of kids do get a B here and there or worse if dealing with executive function, health issues, family issues or whatever.
I have 2 magnet kids. 1 got straight As in ms but not hs. The other got a B or two in both (yes comp sci was one, but this was because of a teacher issue back in the day, so I would not say kid struggled with content). Both doing great.

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There’s way more movement from the waitpool at the high school level than at the middle school level. There are more magnet seats and lots of kids get accepted to multiple programs, but can only accept one. Some kids accept a magnet seat, but are in the waitpool for a magnet they’d rather attend, and then get accepted into their preferred program and release the seat they accepted in the first round. It’s definitely worth applying, even if you don’t think your child is a shoe in.

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What does a B mean? If a quarter B but semester A matters? Do they only focus on the final grade or looking into every period?

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Anonymous wrote:What does a B mean? If a quarter B but semester A matters? Do they only focus on the final grade or looking into every period?

I don't know but from what I read the look at final grades for 7 and Q1 for 8th. I guess they could look at quarterly grades but why stop there and not look at percent grades... They have to draw a line somewhere.

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Anonymous wrote:What does a B mean? If a quarter B but semester A matters? Do they only focus on the final grade or looking into every period?

Middle school classes only give quarter grades, not semester grades. Kids will get semester grades for HS level classes taken in MS (usually world language, and math beginning in Algebra). So I’m guessing they’d need to see quarter grades, to keep things consistent.

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Anonymous wrote:What does a B mean? If a quarter B but semester A matters? Do they only focus on the final grade or looking into every period?

Middle school classes only give quarter grades, not semester grades. Kids will get semester grades for HS level classes taken in MS (usually world language, and math beginning in Algebra). So I’m guessing they’d need to see quarter grades, to keep things consistent.

Not true. Middle school report cards show semester grades.

[Anonymous]

Mine is at RMIB and got a couple b’s in middle school but that was when they still used cogat and teacher recommendations as well as map.