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

[Anonymous]

did anyone attend the test given at Blair? it was a very diverse group is students. my dd and her friend were one of very few white kids.

[Anonymous]

I agree about Blair -- this was very noticeable.

[Anonymous]

If 2/55 for cold spring is true, it's unheard of. I suspect the 2 accepted will end up not going. It's a long commute, many went in past years because their friends went too.

[Anonymous]

So reported in this thread:

1) Friend of Jaguar Mom reports acceptance of 1 child to both Eastern and TPMS with a call from the principal and a letter last week
2) Yesterday 1 report of an acceptance to TPMS
3) Today, Large envelope poster - accepted to TPMS
4) 2 kids at Cold Spring (program unstated)

Working parents: It's ok to brag - share those acceptances when you get home from work!

[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!

Sorry, but no. The Cogat test is used nationally for GT/magnet identification.

[Anonymous]

My child received an acceptance letter to Eastern today and a WL for TPMS. I can confirm the envelope size. Currently attending a focus elementary school within the DCC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My child received an acceptance letter to Eastern today and a WL for TPMS. I can confirm the envelope size. Currently attending a focus elementary school within the DCC.

I know you are probably hesitant to share scores and other criteria because many posters, if it is not 99% across the board backed up by high Map M and R scores, are going to complain about your kid getting in over theirs. I am one of those moms of a 99% kid, but I promise I won't send any mean thoughts your way, and I'm just very curious about what it took to get in this year.

[Anonymous]

I have been following this thread since it started, sneaking in every now and then to read posts and rejections. My DC is a Math kid, who gets the concept faitly quickly and can apply mental Math. Doesn’t spend more than 30 minutes on all HW, plays on devices, loves to acquire knowledge through electronic media, is in the highest reading group and the writing assignments get good teacher comments, and mostly A but is not a reading writing whiz. Very high MAP (250 Math and 242 english) and PARCC scores (5). Headed to North Bethesda MS.

Did pretty well on the magnet test and gave me quite a good detailed account of various sections, questions and if someone followed the threads on MS magnet test, I am the poster who made aware that there was a non scoring section in the beginning of the test and if answered smartly, it would basically be an essay on who should get in to the magnet program. DC did answer those questions very well based on what DC told me about the kinds of questions and the responses.
DCs cogat scores are all 99, and got accepted to TPMS. Just got the envelop. Did not get in to Humanities. If it matters, southeast Asian.

Is my DC a good candidate for TPMS program, honestly I don’t think so based on what I have heard about a strong curriculum at TPMS, and knowing my child’s strengths and weaknesses. So I now have a lot to think about, since we all have a responsibility to make sure what environment will be good for our children whether we pass the selection line or not on the magnet test.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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!

Sorry, but no. The Cogat test is used nationally for GT/magnet identification.

It is really interesting that they only give percentile and not scores. CoGat is also not great at teasing out the right tail. The Cold Spring result is definitely a big change from previous years.

[Anonymous]

Haven't read the whole thread but DD got letter today--accepted to both Eastern and TPMS. 99th percentile both reading and math, home school Westland.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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?

In the past about 1/3 to half of Cold Spring students were accepted into one of the magnets depending on the year. Now just 3% selected from the cohort that entered that CES with the highest test scores in the county? Seems a bit extreme.

[Anonymous]

This is my current guess about what they did -- they took a lot of kids from schools where there wasn't going to be much of a cohort. They still took some kids from schools where there was going to be a cohort (W schools, but also Sligo and SIMS in DCC, among others), because they wanted some geographic diversity, but they didn't take the top-scoring kids from those schools. I I say that because we still haven't heard of those 280 Map M kids getting in, and I know for a fact that some lower-scoring kids, on all metrics and from UMC backgrounds so they didn't have a dealing with adversity bump, at least got waitlisted at my kid's school and a few of them haven't heard yet so I assume that means acceptances. I'd love to hear if my theory is wrong.

[Anonymous]

In years past around 1/3 of the Barnsley kids got into either Eastern or TPMS.
It is really surprising to read about Cold Spring since they are the highest scoring of all the HGCs.
If they are using geographic diversity as a criteria (since they cannot explicitly use race as a selection criteria) I think it is very unfair to some of the kids at Cold Spring who might have been excellent candidates but happen to live in the Western part of the county.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have been following this thread since it started, sneaking in every now and then to read posts and rejections. My DC is a Math kid, who gets the concept faitly quickly and can apply mental Math. Doesn’t spend more than 30 minutes on all HW, plays on devices, loves to acquire knowledge through electronic media, is in the highest reading group and the writing assignments get good teacher comments, and mostly A but is not a reading writing whiz. Very high MAP (250 Math and 242 english) and PARCC scores (5). Headed to North Bethesda MS.

Did pretty well on the magnet test and gave me quite a good detailed account of various sections, questions and if someone followed the threads on MS magnet test, I am the poster who made aware that there was a non scoring section in the beginning of the test and if answered smartly, it would basically be an essay on who should get in to the magnet program. DC did answer those questions very well based on what DC told me about the kinds of questions and the responses.
DCs cogat scores are all 99, and got accepted to TPMS. Just got the envelop. Did not get in to Humanities. If it matters, southeast Asian.

Is my DC a good candidate for TPMS program, honestly I don’t think so based on what I have heard about a strong curriculum at TPMS, and knowing my child’s strengths and weaknesses. So I now have a lot to think about, since we all have a responsibility to make sure what environment will be good for our children whether we pass the selection line or not on the magnet test.

Just curious, what does the non-scoring section look like?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So reported in this thread:

1) Friend of Jaguar Mom reports acceptance of 1 child to both Eastern and TPMS with a call from the principal and a letter last week
2) Yesterday 1 report of an acceptance to TPMS
3) Today, Large envelope poster - accepted to TPMS
4) 2 kids at Cold Spring (program unstated)

Working parents: It's ok to brag - share those acceptances when you get home from work!

Which ES?