2024 MS Criteria Based Lottery Results

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Anonymous wrote:Yes email admin at your school. Or contact DCCAP directly

ok thanks

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Anonymous wrote:Can anyone chime in about how they compare? Lottery results favorable for both programs.

Seems like TpMS could be more balanced. Really torn. Oddly, EMS is DS’s home school so they’d have to leave friends. Both programs sound like they prepare students really well for high school.

Takoma park is considered the better run school of the two on this board. The classes are engaging and the teachers are excellent. Many kids go on to the Blair magnet. Kids are hardworking and supportive. There is not a heavy homework load. If your kid is a STEM kid it’s a great choice.

Eastern is considered a rougher, less well run school. The program is excellent and very rigorous. A good choice for creative, driven kids with strengths in the humanities, theater literature. The homework load is intense.

Are you torn mostly because of the friends? I would not factor that at all. Friendships change dramatically in MS and he'll still see them if he's not moving anywhere. Most kids this age know whether they lean STEM or humanities. Choose the one that matches your child's interests. It doesn't have to be the interest they'll have forever. DD had that choice a few years ago and while she really loved both schools and programs it was an easy choice.

If grades make a difference most kids we know at TPMS had all As with little work and almost no homework. Much harder at Eastern.

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Anonymous wrote:I know very few (including me) will be lucky enough to be in this position but...

If you are eligible for both, and accept a position in one, does that automatically withdraw you from the waitlist for the other? Just thinking if your kid has a clear inclination towards one, but gets into the other, should you accept the one that you got into originally? Or hold out to see if you get a spot in the one that may be a better fit.

No. My kid got in to TPMS last Jan but waitlisted for Eastern. In July he was offered a space at Eastern.

We were specifically told we would be taken out of the pool for one if we accepted the other. I wonder if your experience was due to the trouble they had filling spots at Eastern last year.

Not exactly. If your child is given an offer at both and you accept one you're taken out of the other. If your child is given an offer for one but waitlisted for another your child can accept the offer and still remain waitlisted.

I also thought it was weird last year that many people were getting off the waitlist with both offers at the same time. It seemed like they did it on purpose. FWIW we heard of as many people getting off the WL for TPMS as Eastern. We have kids who went to both so we got a lot of questions. Our area is far from both schools so it might be that they were cycling through invites for our area faster than for others since more people are likely to turn down the magnets due to the commute.

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Anonymous wrote:Thank you to the PPs for posting that I didn't have to do anything. I would have gotten an anxiety attack (or maybe already did after seeing this thread lol). Since we didn't get any notification if we were even in the lottery I went and appealed. Not sure if that will matter. Deadline is 2/2/24.

You jumped the gun here. You should wait until you get the notification. If it doesn’t arrive in the mail it will be on ParentVue next week.

So they don't send emails out if your child is in the lottery then? How would we know if our kid is selected to be in lottery then and appeal if not? I checked my emails and nada so I thought I would appeal.

You receive a notification in the mail (not email) and then a few days later you get the PDF of the notification in ParentVue (under documents). People who are admitted are also contacted by email from the schools, but the official notification is by mail.

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Anonymous wrote:With those scores and mod farm rate, she should've been identified.

Email your school resource teacher or principal to find out why you're not getting communication (email and snail mail).

Yes the letter indicates identification to receive enrichment.

Thanks. I did the appeal though, so should I still email the Principal?

No you should wait a few days for the mail to arrive!!

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Anonymous wrote:Thank you to the PPs for posting that I didn't have to do anything. I would have gotten an anxiety attack (or maybe already did after seeing this thread lol). Since we didn't get any notification if we were even in the lottery I went and appealed. Not sure if that will matter. Deadline is 2/2/24.

You jumped the gun here. You should wait until you get the notification. If it doesn’t arrive in the mail it will be on ParentVue next week.

So they don't send emails out if your child is in the lottery then? How would we know if our kid is selected to be in lottery then and appeal if not? I checked my emails and nada so I thought I would appeal.

You receive a notification in the mail (not email) and then a few days later you get the PDF of the notification in ParentVue (under documents). People who are admitted are also contacted by email from the schools, but the official notification is by mail.

Thanks, I checked and we didn't get any admission to pool notification, by snail mail or on parentvue or email. So I emailed the school and dccaps.

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Why can’t they just upload the letter to ParentVue on the day they mail it?

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Anonymous wrote:Question for the experts, why does it say under "central review" that my daughter who is currently in compacted math and has all As and Map-M in the mid 90's - was not centrally identified to receive enrichment in her local middle? That seems odd.

Was ID'd for enrichment in Humanities/in the waitpool as well.

What's the FARMS rate at her home school? Is it so low as to be functionally zero?

Yes

Mine is in compacted, all As, 99th percentile (245 MAP-M). I would assume you'd need to be 95th or higher to be in the pool for low farms but they'd have to give exact cutoffs to be sure.

DC was waitlisted for both, and MAP-R was 95th percentile, low farms school.

Thanks, I’m just seeking clarification on the part where they say “not identified to receive enrichment at the local middle school” There is also something about on grade level work. I just want to make sure she stays tracked for whatever follows compacted math and not moved off that track.

I plan on taking her off the humanities waitlist because her home school is a better fit. I just want to make sure her math track stays the same.

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Anonymous wrote:Thank you to the PPs for posting that I didn't have to do anything. I would have gotten an anxiety attack (or maybe already did after seeing this thread lol). Since we didn't get any notification if we were even in the lottery I went and appealed. Not sure if that will matter. Deadline is 2/2/24.

You jumped the gun here. You should wait until you get the notification. If it doesn’t arrive in the mail it will be on ParentVue next week.

So they don't send emails out if your child is in the lottery then? How would we know if our kid is selected to be in lottery then and appeal if not? I checked my emails and nada so I thought I would appeal.

You receive a notification in the mail (not email) and then a few days later you get the PDF of the notification in ParentVue (under documents). People who are admitted are also contacted by email from the schools, but the official notification is by mail.

Thanks, I checked and we didn't get any admission to pool notification, by snail mail or on parentvue or email. So I emailed the school and dccaps.

Again, you wait. The first set of mail only just arrived yesterday - yours will likely arrive today or in the next couple of days. Give it a few days. ParentVue will update next week.

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If you got waitlisted, did they give you a number?

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Anonymous wrote:Thank you to the PPs for posting that I didn't have to do anything. I would have gotten an anxiety attack (or maybe already did after seeing this thread lol). Since we didn't get any notification if we were even in the lottery I went and appealed. Not sure if that will matter. Deadline is 2/2/24.

You jumped the gun here. You should wait until you get the notification. If it doesn’t arrive in the mail it will be on ParentVue next week.

So they don't send emails out if your child is in the lottery then? How would we know if our kid is selected to be in lottery then and appeal if not? I checked my emails and nada so I thought I would appeal.

You receive a notification in the mail (not email) and then a few days later you get the PDF of the notification in ParentVue (under documents). People who are admitted are also contacted by email from the schools, but the official notification is by mail.

Thanks, I checked and we didn't get any admission to pool notification, by snail mail or on parentvue or email. So I emailed the school and dccaps.

NP here. I say this kindly-- chill, please!

People who got in to one or both schools got an email.

People who didn't get in (but may have been selected for the pool or not), got something in snail mail no earlier than the day you are posting this.

None of those got anything via ParentVue.

There was a holiday. And snow. I'm sure you'll be getting a snail mail letter today or tomorrow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you got waitlisted, did they give you a number?

There is no number.

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Anonymous wrote:If you got waitlisted, did they give you a number?

There is no number.

Right. The criteria determine the pools, but not a ranking. Whoever from that who isn't offered a spot by lottery becomes part of a wait pool.

I think they have two or three group draws from the wait pool as folks decline seats over the next couple of months. From that point, it may be more of a one-name-drawn-for-one-declined-spot affair so as best to allow families and the schools to plan as the start of the school year approaches.

These also are where anyone successfully appealing their DC's exclusion from the pool have a chance of being extended an invitation. I'm not sure of the numbers of appeals or of appeal success rates, but I imagine they are low.

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Anonymous wrote:Thank you to the PPs for posting that I didn't have to do anything. I would have gotten an anxiety attack (or maybe already did after seeing this thread lol). Since we didn't get any notification if we were even in the lottery I went and appealed. Not sure if that will matter. Deadline is 2/2/24.

You jumped the gun here. You should wait until you get the notification. If it doesn’t arrive in the mail it will be on ParentVue next week.

So they don't send emails out if your child is in the lottery then? How would we know if our kid is selected to be in lottery then and appeal if not? I checked my emails and nada so I thought I would appeal.

You receive a notification in the mail (not email) and then a few days later you get the PDF of the notification in ParentVue (under documents). People who are admitted are also contacted by email from the schools, but the official notification is by mail.

Thanks, I checked and we didn't get any admission to pool notification, by snail mail or on parentvue or email. So I emailed the school and dccaps.

NP here. I say this kindly-- chill, please!

People who got in to one or both schools got an email.

People who didn't get in (but may have been selected for the pool or not), got something in snail mail no earlier than the day you are posting this.

None of those got anything via ParentVue.

There was a holiday. And snow. I'm sure you'll be getting a snail mail letter today or tomorrow.

+1 Emailing DCCAPS and the principal is overkill when you don't even know whether your child was in pool. The likelihood is that they were and just didn't get lucky in this first round of lottery. There's nothing any of those people can do about luck. Nor anything they can do about male delivery.

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Anonymous wrote:Thank you to the PPs for posting that I didn't have to do anything. I would have gotten an anxiety attack (or maybe already did after seeing this thread lol). Since we didn't get any notification if we were even in the lottery I went and appealed. Not sure if that will matter. Deadline is 2/2/24.

You jumped the gun here. You should wait until you get the notification. If it doesn’t arrive in the mail it will be on ParentVue next week.

So they don't send emails out if your child is in the lottery then? How would we know if our kid is selected to be in lottery then and appeal if not? I checked my emails and nada so I thought I would appeal.

You receive a notification in the mail (not email) and then a few days later you get the PDF of the notification in ParentVue (under documents). People who are admitted are also contacted by email from the schools, but the official notification is by mail.

Thanks, I checked and we didn't get any admission to pool notification, by snail mail or on parentvue or email. So I emailed the school and dccaps.

Again, you wait. The first set of mail only just arrived yesterday - yours will likely arrive today or in the next couple of days. Give it a few days. ParentVue will update next week.

We never got our notice last year (even though it showed up in our USPS Informed Delivery email), and same thing happened with my 8th grader's DCC high school choice results last week. On both occasions I just called the MCPS consortium office and they told me the results over the phone. The mail never actually arrived. I don't understand why they can't also just email everything on the same day.