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

[Anonymous]

AEI will provide median of applicant pool and median of accepted students if you call them.

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Anonymous wrote:Ok starting to hear some acceptances. All from lower performing middle schools and not kids with straight 99s.

?? Not sure if you intended this as tongue in cheek, but I'm the PP who posted a little while ago that child was accepted to both with 99 reading and 99 math, and home school is Westland, which is hardly low-performing, LOL.

PP, just to get some data, do you think your kid is the one or two top scoring kid on various tests at Westland, or do you have some other theory on why you think your kid got in over others at Westland? Would appreciate any insights/guesses you care to offer.

Congrats to your kid. It's nice to have choices, and I hope we're in that position again some day too!

PP again--truly, I have no idea because we're not that aware of how other kids might score from our ES (Westland would be our zoned MS, we're in a Westland feeder ES now); I haven't talked about scores with others. I know our child tests well but I don't know how it would compare.

[Anonymous]

"I find it hard to believe any teacher would talk to their students this candidly. Either this is BS on somebody's part, or that teacher doesn't plan on coming back next year. "

I agree. Seems very unprofessional.

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Or the teacher was genuinely angry on behalf of her kids and frustrated by the fact that she can count on very few of the kids she dedicates countless hours to getting into MS magnets from now on. She's human for heaven's sakes.

[Anonymous]

DC accepted to Eastern. 99 percentile verbal, lower in the others. Pyle MS.

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Anonymous wrote:Or the teacher was genuinely angry on behalf of her kids and frustrated by the fact that she can count on very few of the kids she dedicates countless hours to getting into MS magnets from now on. She's human for heaven's sakes.

Of course, feeling that way would be completely understandable. Talking that way to students would not be appropriate. Signed, a teacher

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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.

If true. About which I am doubtful. Were the fifth-graders running around at recess systematically checking off names on the Valentine's class name list?

They were all talking about it at the beginning of the day and, with all the rejections, started saying "no one got in, no one got in!" Apparently the teacher corrected them and said, well, two kids got in (the two probably hadn't gotten their letters yet and weren't saying anything). She was quite upset that the bulk of them wouldn't have access to a magnet-level curriculum, said MCPS no longer used test scores as the primary discriminator. My DC said gravely "she hates MCPS," and added she refers to the 2.0 curriculum as "-2.0." Ha.

She did not make the first "hate" statement, DC deduced it, but she regularly says the second (pretty common sentiment among MCPS teachers I believe).

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In years past, what percentage of students from Cold Spring would be admitted to Takoma or Eastern magnets?

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Anonymous wrote:In years past, what percentage of students from Cold Spring would be admitted to Takoma or Eastern magnets?

30-50% per cent depending on the year. Now 3%.

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Anonymous wrote:In years past, what percentage of students from Cold Spring would be admitted to Takoma or Eastern magnets?

30-50% per cent depending on the year. Now 3%.

If 50% were to get in, that would mean 25 kids (if there are two 5th grade classes at Cold Spring) or even more (if there are three sections). They only admit 100, and it is simply not accurate that a third to half of the class at TPMS came from Cold Spring. (DC finished at TPMS last year and is not at Blair).

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Anonymous wrote:In years past, what percentage of students from Cold Spring would be admitted to Takoma or Eastern magnets?

My DC graduated from cold spring in 2015. 26 went to takoma Park, 5 went to eastern, and there are also at least 3 got accepted but chose to go to home school. Their class had around 50 kids.

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Anonymous wrote:In years past, what percentage of students from Cold Spring would be admitted to Takoma or Eastern magnets?

30-50% per cent depending on the year. Now 3%.

If 50% were to get in, that would mean 25 kids (if there are two 5th grade classes at Cold Spring) or even more (if there are three sections). They only admit 100, and it is simply not accurate that a third to half of the class at TPMS came from Cold Spring. (DC finished at TPMS last year and is not at Blair).

PP again--sorry, I see you said TPMS or Eastern. That is more in the realm of the plausible.

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Anonymous wrote:In years past, what percentage of students from Cold Spring would be admitted to Takoma or Eastern magnets?

30-50% per cent depending on the year. Now 3%.

In years past, how many MCPS students applied to Takoma or Eastern. How many applied this year?

[Anonymous]

1000 more applicants this year

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Anonymous wrote:In years past, what percentage of students from Cold Spring would be admitted to Takoma or Eastern magnets?

30-50% per cent depending on the year. Now 3%.

In years past, how many MCPS students applied to Takoma or Eastern. How many applied this year?

Do you really think because mcps cast a wider net that it caught so many more qualified students that Cold Spring acceptance rate dropped that drastically? We are talking about going from anywhere 17 kids- 27 kids down to a measly couple. My kid is at Cold Spring now and he comes from a very good home elementary school. His cohorts at the CES is very strong, so it's quite shocking to me to see such a drastic and abrupt shift.