HGC waitlist question
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Anonymous
| Sorry to start yet another HGC thread, but I didn't see this addressed in any of the other threads. DC got a waitlist letter for Barnesly. I'm keeping expectations very low, but just curious - is there any way to find out where your child is on the list? Or does anyone have a sense from previous years how many folks get off the waitlist? |
Anonymous
| They don't rank the list per se. If someone from your home school declines, they will offer the spot to another kid from the home school. It does happen; depends how enthused your home school peeps are about accepting HGC. |
Anonymous
| But it can happen as late as August! |
Anonymous
| Kids actually can be picked off the wait list through August 2017 for entry in 5th grade. |
Anonymous
| Know some one who entered mid-year 5th grade when another child moved. |
Anonymous
| On our letter it said that they choose from the wait list via a lottery process. |
Anonymous
| Can you send in additional writing samples, projects or recommendation letters to get off the wait list? |
Anonymous
No. They admit enough kids to fill the class. They are not going to overcrowd the classroom. |
Anonymous
| How is it determined who goes on the waitlist? At my kid's school 3 kids are going to a HGC and 3 are on waitlist. Thanks. |
Anonymous
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HGC waitlists are completely different from MS or HS. For MS and HS they read kids' files again. For HGC they do not read files again at all. It is simply lottery.
So it absolutely does not matter how many writing samples or awards you will submit later. Everyone on waitlist have exactly the same probability to be chosen. Also with MS and definetely HS, when one kid is accepted to several program, some seats free up and waitlisted kids get accepted. With HGC this is not the case. Kids can go to only one HGC, as a result very few seats are available if any once initial acceptance is completed. I do not know how different schools operate. I know for a fact that 3-4 year ago Cold Spring NEVER took any kid after 4th grade started. Even when several kids moved between 4th and 5th grade to different states no kids were added to classes. Actually at that time principal mentioned at the meeting that they will not take kids once program will start. |
Anonymous
This makes sense to me. It would be almost impossible for kids to catch up to accelerated instruction halfway through the first year, much less the second. With classes of 27/28, teachers wouldn't have time to give a late-entry child the support he or she would need. |
Anonymous
| I disagree. My HGC always replaced kids that moved without issue. Aside from math which is offered the same at a non-HGC, a kid could step into a science or SS class. If it were impossible to catch up how could non-HGC kids ever compete with HGC kids at the middle magnets. |
Anonymous
Hi can someone please answer my question? Thanks so much! |
Anonymous
Call or email mcps. Who's their info guy who trolls this forum? Dana something? Email him. |
Anonymous
| He is the former info guy! |