Any high MAP+M(290+), straight As, and strong stem honor/award kids did not get in PHS/Blair SMACS?

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. Nothing is a guarantee. Especially if the committee thinks the application is written by a striver mom, not the kid.

"290+" is a mid score, unless that "+" is doing a lot of work.

290 is 99th percentile. How can that be "mid"?

SMCS is a 99+%ile program.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Straight As is meaningless given how easy it is to get there. And there are a ton of kids with MAP scores in that range. Clearly an impressive kid, but unfortunately not unique or special.

I don’t think it’s just the A matters. The strong stem awards would make the child stand out as not many have that

I wonder how the committee check if the kid has the awards? We are not supposed to put any identifyable information on the essay. Kids might as well lie and make up the awards.

The awards don't go in the essay.

How would the committee know of the awards? Its supposed to be a blind admission.

[Anonymous]

Yes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Straight As is meaningless given how easy it is to get there. And there are a ton of kids with MAP scores in that range. Clearly an impressive kid, but unfortunately not unique or special.

I don’t think it’s just the A matters. The strong stem awards would make the child stand out as not many have that

I wonder how the committee check if the kid has the awards? We are not supposed to put any identifyable information on the essay. Kids might as well lie and make up the awards.

The awards don't go in the essay.

How would the committee know of the awards? It’s supposed to be a blind admission.

There are three boxes of awards/interests/etc of 25 words each. I don’t know how to catch someone lying but parents shouldn’t make their kids lying to get into a program. If they cheat this time, they’ll cheat in the future and one day they’ll be caught.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You’re not “just curious.” You’re clearly upset your kid didn’t get in.

I'm not OP, but I'm definitely upset my 7th grade child (290+, all As, and various Math awards) won't even have an access to Blair magnet due to the stupid region thing.

+100

Don't fret, The Blair Mag won't be the Blair Mag once the Bethesda Kids dropout, It will be like Northwood until the (upper middle class)Takoma Park Parents start catching wind of the true peer group of the school and when they stop moving in or opting into private the school will fall into a Kennedy peer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You’re not “just curious.” You’re clearly upset your kid didn’t get in.

I'm not OP, but I'm definitely upset my 7th grade child (290+, all As, and various Math awards) won't even have an access to Blair magnet due to the stupid region thing.

+100

Don't fret, The Blair Mag won't be the Blair Mag once the Bethesda Kids dropout, It will be like Northwood until the (upper middle class)Takoma Park Parents start catching wind of the true peer group of the school and when they stop moving in or opting into private the school will fall into a Kennedy peer.

So true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You’re not “just curious.” You’re clearly upset your kid didn’t get in.

I'm not OP, but I'm definitely upset my 7th grade child (290+, all As, and various Math awards) won't even have an access to Blair magnet due to the stupid region thing.

+100

Don't fret, The Blair Mag won't be the Blair Mag once the Bethesda Kids dropout, It will be like Northwood until the (upper middle class)Takoma Park Parents start catching wind of the true peer group of the school and when they stop moving in or opting into private the school will fall into a Kennedy peer.

why would Bethesda Kids drop out? Isn't Bethesda still in the Blair magnet catchment?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You’re not “just curious.” You’re clearly upset your kid didn’t get in.

I'm not OP, but I'm definitely upset my 7th grade child (290+, all As, and various Math awards) won't even have an access to Blair magnet due to the stupid region thing.

+100

Don't fret, The Blair Mag won't be the Blair Mag once the Bethesda Kids dropout, It will be like Northwood until the (upper middle class)Takoma Park Parents start catching wind of the true peer group of the school and when they stop moving in or opting into private the school will fall into a Kennedy peer.

why would Bethesda Kids drop out? Isn't Bethesda still in the Blair magnet catchment?

Whitman kids notoriously don't leave the school for any program save for very few. The main feeders are for the entire program are not part of the cluster

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You’re not “just curious.” You’re clearly upset your kid didn’t get in.

I'm not OP, but I'm definitely upset my 7th grade child (290+, all As, and various Math awards) won't even have an access to Blair magnet due to the stupid region thing.

+100

Don't fret, The Blair Mag won't be the Blair Mag once the Bethesda Kids dropout, It will be like Northwood until the (upper middle class)Takoma Park Parents start catching wind of the true peer group of the school and when they stop moving in or opting into private the school will fall into a Kennedy peer.

There are some comfortable families at Blair. It will get better for many once out of consortium kids stop taking those spots.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You’re not “just curious.” You’re clearly upset your kid didn’t get in.

I'm not OP, but I'm definitely upset my 7th grade child (290+, all As, and various Math awards) won't even have an access to Blair magnet due to the stupid region thing.

+100

Don't fret, The Blair Mag won't be the Blair Mag once the Bethesda Kids dropout, It will be like Northwood until the (upper middle class)Takoma Park Parents start catching wind of the true peer group of the school and when they stop moving in or opting into private the school will fall into a Kennedy peer.

There are some comfortable families at Blair. It will get better for many once out of consortium kids stop taking those spots.

Yah but they aren't the defining demographics and keeping them there is why the county sends so many good students form better areas there. When the pipeline dries up it remains to be seen if the small contingent of upper middle class from mostly TP and Silgo Park Hills sticks around. Or the weight of the rest of the area causes them to rethink. It isn't like the the University Corridor is getting better. How much has pride has the tiny SMCS program imparted to the school and the DCC. Without it Blair becomes just another silver spring school that contains some of the poorest & highest crime areas in the entire county. I bet there are more people just in Quebec Terrace than all the working millionaires in the few nice areas combined. Without the false premises that those UMC kids are sounded by STEM type peers, many new families wont move in. Maybe the chance to opt into BCC or Whitman keeps them, we will see.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes. Nothing is a guarantee. Especially if the committee thinks the application is written by a striver mom, not the kid.

"290+" is a mid score, unless that "+" is doing a lot of work.

Or the committee thinks that the test score was lucky and not consistent with the rest of performance across other areas of evaluation.

It’s probably pretty rare to reject such students with strong stem awards and high MAP M. Outliers always exist but maybe with some reasons

There aren’t that many “strong STEM honors/awards” available to middle schoolers. So if the kids have them at that age, that’s more indicative of parental resources.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes. Nothing is a guarantee. Especially if the committee thinks the application is written by a striver mom, not the kid.

"290+" is a mid score, unless that "+" is doing a lot of work.

Or the committee thinks that the test score was lucky and not consistent with the rest of performance across other areas of evaluation.

It’s probably pretty rare to reject such students with strong stem awards and high MAP M. Outliers always exist but maybe with some reasons

There aren’t that many “strong STEM honors/awards” available to middle schoolers. So if the kids have them at that age, that’s more indicative of parental resources.

There are. Math Kangaroo, mathcount, mathleague, science bowl, AMC 8, Montgomery Blair math tournament, etc

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You’re not “just curious.” You’re clearly upset your kid didn’t get in.

I'm not OP, but I'm definitely upset my 7th grade child (290+, all As, and various Math awards) won't even have an access to Blair magnet due to the stupid region thing.

+100

Don't fret, The Blair Mag won't be the Blair Mag once the Bethesda Kids dropout, It will be like Northwood until the (upper middle class)Takoma Park Parents start catching wind of the true peer group of the school and when they stop moving in or opting into private the school will fall into a Kennedy peer.

why would Bethesda Kids drop out? Isn't Bethesda still in the Blair magnet catchment?

PP meant Potomac/Rockville, not Bethesda.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Straight As is meaningless given how easy it is to get there. And there are a ton of kids with MAP scores in that range. Clearly an impressive kid, but unfortunately not unique or special.

I don’t think it’s just the A matters. The strong stem awards would make the child stand out as not many have that

I wonder how the committee check if the kid has the awards? We are not supposed to put any identifyable information on the essay. Kids might as well lie and make up the awards.

The awards don't go in the essay.

How would the committee know of the awards? It’s supposed to be a blind admission.

There are three boxes of awards/interests/etc of 25 words each. I don’t know how to catch someone lying but parents shouldn’t make their kids lying to get into a program. If they cheat this time, they’ll cheat in the future and one day they’ll be caught.

How sweet and naive you are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You’re not “just curious.” You’re clearly upset your kid didn’t get in.

I'm not OP, but I'm definitely upset my 7th grade child (290+, all As, and various Math awards) won't even have an access to Blair magnet due to the stupid region thing.

+100

Don't fret, The Blair Mag won't be the Blair Mag once the Bethesda Kids dropout, It will be like Northwood until the (upper middle class)Takoma Park Parents start catching wind of the true peer group of the school and when they stop moving in or opting into private the school will fall into a Kennedy peer.

There are some comfortable families at Blair. It will get better for many once out of consortium kids stop taking those spots.

Yah but they aren't the defining demographics and keeping them there is why the county sends so many good students form better areas there. When the pipeline dries up it remains to be seen if the small contingent of upper middle class from mostly TP and Silgo Park Hills sticks around. Or the weight of the rest of the area causes them to rethink. It isn't like the the University Corridor is getting better. How much has pride has the tiny SMCS program imparted to the school and the DCC. Without it Blair becomes just another silver spring school that contains some of the poorest & highest crime areas in the entire county. I bet there are more people just in Quebec Terrace than all the working millionaires in the few nice areas combined. Without the false premises that those UMC kids are sounded by STEM type peers, many new families wont move in. Maybe the chance to opt into BCC or Whitman keeps them, we will see.

There are many homes and families who warm as much as bcc or Whitman families but we choose very different lifestyle and save vs having our kids have to chase merit and other aid for college as we are not entitled.