Which HS magnets is your child turning down?

[Anonymous]

MAP-R of 273 is really high.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MAP-R of 273 is really high.

Yes. It probably offset the B in English one quarter, for CAP at least. I don’t think the STEM based schools even saw the MAP-R.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Do you mind sharing MAP results for kids who got invited to all magnet programs?

For some reason people seem to get angry about this question. And then they attack anyone as not worthy if they share their scores.

That said, I’ll share and hope that I don’t get attacked because it is what it is.

Kid was admitted to Blair SMCS, Blair CAP, Wheaton engineering, Wheaton biomedical, RMIB, and the regional IB program. MAP-M was 274, MAP-R was 262. My take is that the essay and the other prompts were very important.

My kid took the COGAT and was 99th percentile on all three sections.

And why are you sharing that here? cOGAT hasn’t been used in MCPS since 2019-2020.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you mind sharing MAP results for kids who got invited to all magnet programs?

For some reason people seem to get angry about this question. And then they attack anyone as not worthy if they share their scores.

That said, I’ll share and hope that I don’t get attacked because it is what it is.

Kid was admitted to Blair SMCS, Blair CAP, Wheaton engineering, Wheaton biomedical, RMIB, and the regional IB program. MAP-M was 274, MAP-R was 262. My take is that the essay and the other prompts were very important.

My kid took the COGAT and was 99th percentile on all three sections.

I’m the PP who shared scores. The only time my kid took COGAT they also scored in the 99th percentile for all three sections. Not sure how or why that’s relevant here though. That was three years ago.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Turning down RMIB, Poolsville, and Regional IB for home HS

Why even apply to those if you aren't serious? Sorry not trying to be disrespectful; I'm curious.

NP - I’m genuinely curious, too.

Not the PP, but I get this. Applications were submitted back in October. The DC may have been very interested back then, but changed their mind for any one of a zillion reasons in the intervening months.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you mind sharing MAP results for kids who got invited to all magnet programs?

For some reason people seem to get angry about this question. And then they attack anyone as not worthy if they share their scores.

That said, I’ll share and hope that I don’t get attacked because it is what it is.

Kid was admitted to Blair SMCS, Blair CAP, Wheaton engineering, Wheaton biomedical, RMIB, and the regional IB program. MAP-M was 274, MAP-R was 262. My take is that the essay and the other prompts were very important.

My kid took the COGAT and was 99th percentile on all three sections.

I’m the PP who shared scores. The only time my kid took COGAT they also scored in the 99th percentile for all three sections. Not sure how or why that’s relevant here though. That was three years ago.

For private school kids who didn't take the MAP. They can take CogAT or a bunch of other tests (SSAT, OLSAT, WISC, some others)

[Anonymous]

Oic—most people here are MCPS, so mentioning cogat feels like a blast from the past.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you mind sharing MAP results for kids who got invited to all magnet programs?

For some reason people seem to get angry about this question. And then they attack anyone as not worthy if they share their scores.

That said, I’ll share and hope that I don’t get attacked because it is what it is.

Kid was admitted to Blair SMCS, Blair CAP, Wheaton engineering, Wheaton biomedical, RMIB, and the regional IB program. MAP-M was 274, MAP-R was 262. My take is that the essay and the other prompts were very important.

That's a really good score and thanks for sharing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Turning down RMIB, Poolsville, and Regional IB for home HS

Why even apply to those if you aren't serious? Sorry not trying to be disrespectful; I'm curious.

NP - I’m genuinely curious, too.

Not the PP, but I get this. Applications were submitted back in October. The DC may have been very interested back then, but changed their mind for any one of a zillion reasons in the intervening months.

But these programs are all very different. It may be a very small number of kids admitted to so many dissimilar magnet programs, it’s hard to have a sense of how common it is.

[Anonymous]

Has anyone’s student received an invitation from one of Poolesville HS’s waitpools this week (yesterday or today) 3/1 or 3/2?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone’s student received an invitation from one of Poolesville HS’s waitpools this week (yesterday or today) 3/1 or 3/2?

My kiddo is supposed to be in a waitpool, but just got a rejection of the “level 1” appeal that was initiated by opting to stay in the waitpool. No mention of the waitpool in the rejection, so we are now thoroughly confused. Did they kick the kid out of the waitpool? Private school looking better and better. This entire process seems bizarre.

[Anonymous]

Does everyone in the waitpool undergo a level 1 appeal? Does that mean most of us should expect rejection letters?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does everyone in the waitpool undergo a level 1 appeal? Does that mean most of us should expect rejection letters?

Original letter when placed in waitpool said:

The records of all students in the wait pools will be automatically reviewed as part of the Level One Appeals process.

Beyond that, your guess is as good as mine. But maybe it’s a bad sign that we got this rejection of others in the waitpool aren’t getting it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does everyone in the waitpool undergo a level 1 appeal? Does that mean most of us should expect rejection letters?

Original letter when placed in waitpool said:

The records of all students in the wait pools will be automatically reviewed as part of the Level One Appeals process.

Beyond that, your guess is as good as mine. But maybe it’s a bad sign that we got this rejection of others in the waitpool aren’t getting it.

For which program? My kid is in the CAP waitpool and haven’t heard anything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does everyone in the waitpool undergo a level 1 appeal? Does that mean most of us should expect rejection letters?

Original letter when placed in waitpool said:

The records of all students in the wait pools will be automatically reviewed as part of the Level One Appeals process.

Beyond that, your guess is as good as mine. But maybe it’s a bad sign that we got this rejection of others in the waitpool aren’t getting it.

For which program? My kid is in the CAP waitpool and haven’t heard anything.

It’s at Poolesville