MAP M and MAP R scores for Poolesville Magnet Programs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You have reading comprehension issues. I understood that the middle schools were lottery. A lot of TPMS kids then go to Blair.

But since TPMS was lottery and HS was not lottery the overlap was expected to be smaller. With fewer TPMS kids going to Blair that situation could have theoretically impacted yield at Blair. It sounds like it didn't impact yield and they overcompensated for the lottery effect.

BS.
Over 30 kids from TPMS got into Blair last time around.

[Anonymous]

I hate to break it to you but it's been much much higher in previous years and PP said that was the theoretical concern. It doesn't mean that's what happened. DD did hear from DD's friend very few of her TPMS friends got into Blair. She's in 9th.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ostrander (Blair SMCS coordinator) told me that they’ve always invited around 140 right off the bat, but in the past 30-some would decline and they’d end up with their preferred size of just over 100. But last year a much smaller number declined and they ended up with 127. They usually have 4 cohorts of students and this year they had to add a fifth.

I have a current 9th grader at Blair SMCS. I really thought my kid was going to decline the admission based on logistics and some benefits of the home school, but the admitted student night and shadowing opportunity were too convincing. Blair did a great job of selling the program at the admitted student night - maybe they shouldn't have done it so well!

They provided a shadowing opportunity?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ostrander (Blair SMCS coordinator) told me that they’ve always invited around 140 right off the bat, but in the past 30-some would decline and they’d end up with their preferred size of just over 100. But last year a much smaller number declined and they ended up with 127. They usually have 4 cohorts of students and this year they had to add a fifth.

Weird, in DD's year he said they invited "just over 100" aiming for a class of 100.

Yeah, I have a current 10th grader and he definitely said that to us too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hate to break it to you but it's been much much higher in previous years and PP said that was the theoretical concern. It doesn't mean that's what happened. DD did hear from DD's friend very few of her TPMS friends got into Blair. She's in 9th.

You know what OVER 30 means, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hate to break it to you but it's been much much higher in previous years and PP said that was the theoretical concern. It doesn't mean that's what happened. DD did hear from DD's friend very few of her TPMS friends got into Blair. She's in 9th.

You know what OVER 30 means, right?

Found the math specialist, not a communications specialist.

[Anonymous]

OP here. Do they consider both MAP M and MAP R for global ecology at PHS? My kids MAP R seems to be low 241 but has better MAP M 276

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Do they consider both MAP M and MAP R for global ecology at PHS? My kids MAP R seems to be low 241 but has better MAP M 276

That's not too low for ecology. Ecology is a science program. Extremely high MAP-T would be attracted to the communications programs.

[Anonymous]

Ecology is not a science program. One of the core courses is social studies. But I think those scores are great OP.

[Anonymous]

Does anyone know the required map r scores needed for the poolesville humanities program?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know the required map r scores needed for the poolesville humanities program?

There are no required scores.

[Anonymous]

Not sure on what the required scores are. But below link suggests that students with pretty high scores too were waitlisted (on all programs). what it does not tell us though is "why".

https://marylandpublicschools.org/stateboard/Documents/legalopinions/2022/09/N.S.andB.J.Op.No.22-23.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know the required map r scores needed for the poolesville humanities program?

There are no required scores.

NP. I think the PP meant what map r scores do students that get accepted into the poolesville humanities program typically have, like an avg?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not sure on what the required scores are. But below link suggests that students with pretty high scores too were waitlisted (on all programs). what it does not tell us though is "why".

https://marylandpublicschools.org/stateboard/Documents/legalopinions/2022/09/N.S.andB.J.Op.No.22-23.pdf

Those were probably the highest scores that were not admitted. Someone with map-m 293 was not admitted to the math and science program.

[Anonymous]

Well, it could be for other reasons/ criteria that is oblivious to us. for example, low grades / no ecs etc.