Does MCPS MS curriculum alone prepare students for the math/science magnets?

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Last year's median score per Coordinator was 285.

Anonymous wrote:OP - the main data points that the SMCS selection committee gets nowadays is just MAP-M and courses+grades. They are just looking for students very accelerated in math. You don’t need all the extras to get accepted or to be successful.

20 years ago, the magnets were intended to serve students who didn’t have access to enough advanced programming at their home school. Today, all HS have advanced courses and there are a variety of special programs at many high schools that students from other clusters can attend. For many, the focus of getting into SMCS is misplaced because there are other opportunities that will serve kids equally well.

The median admitted Blair SMACS student MAP is not “very accelerated”. It’s approximately the level of “got an A in Algebra” (fall 8th grade). And half are below median.

Agree my kids were scoring above the median SMACS before ever taking Algebra when they were in 6th grade AIM. I often wonder how they would've done if they had the option to take AIM in 5th like the WPES students.

What is this magical median number?

The number the magnet coordinator shared for admitted students was 280 not 285. The median for the applicant pool was 255.

That's odd since the coordinator just told me recently that it was 285 too.

I am guessing this number will continue going up in the future.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think admission is largely based on test scores or else all those kids at Hoover and Cabin John would be getting in but they are not. Based on DC's knowledge - but it's not like kids have surveyed every other kid - it does seem like the minimum of 99th percentile is mostly accurate. But there are many more 99th percentile kids not getting in including half of TPMS magnet.

The test score level varies by school/cluster. Many kids at TPMS magnet presumably score higher than some of the kids who got in from other schools, but MCPS realizes that magnet seats are a scarce resource which many kids can benefit from and so they are distributed approximately by highest test scores per school/cluster.

Other factors come into play like - if a kid is not accepted to a magnet HS, will they have a peer group and access to accelerated instruction at their home school

This was done for racial equity. MCPS didn't like the fact that the HT/Magnet programs were populated mostly by Asians with a handful of white kids. So they decided a scheme that would discriminate against Asian kids but maxing out the number of them that could get into these programs. It was a genius move. It is racist and terrible because tmit doesn't help the best and brightest. But progressives don't care about that. They care about equity which requires discrimination.

Your tinfoil hat is too tight; loosening it up a little bit.

The numbers don't lie. There was a 20% drop in Asian acceptance rates the first year and another 20% the next year. But leftists don't like facts. You prefer lived experience which can be made up to suit your needs.

Of course because more non-Asian students applied, while previously it was mostly prepped Asians.

I know you believe preparation is an aspect of white supremacy but most people appreciate preparation.

You know nothing. I am white.
Know your role.

I'm also white. I was simply quoting the NMAACH's "Aspects and Assumptions of Whiteness" chart.

Sure you are

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think admission is largely based on test scores or else all those kids at Hoover and Cabin John would be getting in but they are not. Based on DC's knowledge - but it's not like kids have surveyed every other kid - it does seem like the minimum of 99th percentile is mostly accurate. But there are many more 99th percentile kids not getting in including half of TPMS magnet.

The test score level varies by school/cluster. Many kids at TPMS magnet presumably score higher than some of the kids who got in from other schools, but MCPS realizes that magnet seats are a scarce resource which many kids can benefit from and so they are distributed approximately by highest test scores per school/cluster.

Other factors come into play like - if a kid is not accepted to a magnet HS, will they have a peer group and access to accelerated instruction at their home school

This was done for racial equity. MCPS didn't like the fact that the HT/Magnet programs were populated mostly by Asians with a handful of white kids. So they decided a scheme that would discriminate against Asian kids but maxing out the number of them that could get into these programs. It was a genius move. It is racist and terrible because tmit doesn't help the best and brightest. But progressives don't care about that. They care about equity which requires discrimination.

Your tinfoil hat is too tight; loosening it up a little bit.

The numbers don't lie. There was a 20% drop in Asian acceptance rates the first year and another 20% the next year. But leftists don't like facts. You prefer lived experience which can be made up to suit your needs.

Of course because more non-Asian students applied, while previously it was mostly prepped Asians.

I know you believe preparation is an aspect of white supremacy but most people appreciate preparation.

You know nothing. I am white.
Know your role.

I'm also white. I was simply quoting the NMAACH's "Aspects and Assumptions of Whiteness" chart.

Sure you are

Are you unaware of guilt-ridden white progressives who spout nonsense like that contained in the chart of whiteness I mentioned? These are the same folks who want busing and passed a policy that allows males to play girls sports if they say they are girls.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think admission is largely based on test scores or else all those kids at Hoover and Cabin John would be getting in but they are not. Based on DC's knowledge - but it's not like kids have surveyed every other kid - it does seem like the minimum of 99th percentile is mostly accurate. But there are many more 99th percentile kids not getting in including half of TPMS magnet.

The test score level varies by school/cluster. Many kids at TPMS magnet presumably score higher than some of the kids who got in from other schools, but MCPS realizes that magnet seats are a scarce resource which many kids can benefit from and so they are distributed approximately by highest test scores per school/cluster.

Other factors come into play like - if a kid is not accepted to a magnet HS, will they have a peer group and access to accelerated instruction at their home school

This was done for racial equity. MCPS didn't like the fact that the HT/Magnet programs were populated mostly by Asians with a handful of white kids. So they decided a scheme that would discriminate against Asian kids but maxing out the number of them that could get into these programs. It was a genius move. It is racist and terrible because tmit doesn't help the best and brightest. But progressives don't care about that. They care about equity which requires discrimination.

Your tinfoil hat is too tight; loosening it up a little bit.

The numbers don't lie. There was a 20% drop in Asian acceptance rates the first year and another 20% the next year. But leftists don't like facts. You prefer lived experience which can be made up to suit your needs.

Of course because more non-Asian students applied, while previously it was mostly prepped Asians.

I know you believe preparation is an aspect of white supremacy but most people appreciate preparation.

You know nothing. I am white.
Know your role.

I'm also white. I was simply quoting the NMAACH's "Aspects and Assumptions of Whiteness" chart.

Sure you are

Are you unaware of guilt-ridden white progressives who spout nonsense like that contained in the chart of whiteness I mentioned? These are the same folks who want busing and passed a policy that allows males to play girls sports if they say they are girls.

You're slipping. You left out "woke" in your description.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think admission is largely based on test scores or else all those kids at Hoover and Cabin John would be getting in but they are not. Based on DC's knowledge - but it's not like kids have surveyed every other kid - it does seem like the minimum of 99th percentile is mostly accurate. But there are many more 99th percentile kids not getting in including half of TPMS magnet.

The test score level varies by school/cluster. Many kids at TPMS magnet presumably score higher than some of the kids who got in from other schools, but MCPS realizes that magnet seats are a scarce resource which many kids can benefit from and so they are distributed approximately by highest test scores per school/cluster.

Other factors come into play like - if a kid is not accepted to a magnet HS, will they have a peer group and access to accelerated instruction at their home school

This was done for racial equity. MCPS didn't like the fact that the HT/Magnet programs were populated mostly by Asians with a handful of white kids. So they decided a scheme that would discriminate against Asian kids but maxing out the number of them that could get into these programs. It was a genius move. It is racist and terrible because tmit doesn't help the best and brightest. But progressives don't care about that. They care about equity which requires discrimination.

Your tinfoil hat is too tight; loosening it up a little bit.

The numbers don't lie. There was a 20% drop in Asian acceptance rates the first year and another 20% the next year. But leftists don't like facts. You prefer lived experience which can be made up to suit your needs.

Of course because more non-Asian students applied, while previously it was mostly prepped Asians.

I know you believe preparation is an aspect of white supremacy but most people appreciate preparation.

You know nothing. I am white.
Know your role.

I'm also white. I was simply quoting the NMAACH's "Aspects and Assumptions of Whiteness" chart.

Sure you are

Are you unaware of guilt-ridden white progressives who spout nonsense like that contained in the chart of whiteness I mentioned? These are the same folks who want busing and passed a policy that allows males to play girls sports if they say they are girls.

You're slipping. You left out "woke" in your description.

I said guilt-ridden white progressives. Also saying woke would have been redundant.