2024 MS Criteria Based Lottery Results

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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.

LOL. Sorry about the typo. Mail delivery, obviously, although male delivery might be nice.

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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.

We never received ours in the mail either last year, but it was posted in ParentVue either the next day or the day after that.

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Sorry for hijacking your thread OP. I'm the poster who followed advice and emailed. I got a response from dccaps saying my daughter is in the wait pool for both schools upcounty.

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Anonymous wrote:Literally just got an email from TPMS welcoming my rising 5th grader. I guess I don't have to wait for the mail!

Same. My kid isn't going to want to go though.

Then, don’t send them. Let the spot go to an enthusiastic participant.

Easier said than done. Hard to pass up a decent school when our home school is so, so much worse. I’m hoping to get off the waitlist at Eastern, since humanities is more my child’s speed, but will probably take TPMS in the meantime. Too bad individual families can’t trade!

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Anonymous wrote:Literally just got an email from TPMS welcoming my rising 5th grader. I guess I don't have to wait for the mail!

Same. My kid isn't going to want to go though.

Then, don’t send them. Let the spot go to an enthusiastic participant.

Easier said than done. Hard to pass up a decent school when our home school is so, so much worse. I’m hoping to get off the waitlist at Eastern, since humanities is more my child’s speed, but will probably take TPMS in the meantime. Too bad individual families can’t trade!

I agree, trading should be allowed. Eastern turned my math/science-focused child into a humanities-focused child and I didn't anticipate that. Hard to undo the intense training.

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Anonymous wrote:Literally just got an email from TPMS welcoming my rising 5th grader. I guess I don't have to wait for the mail!

Same. My kid isn't going to want to go though.

Then, don’t send them. Let the spot go to an enthusiastic participant.

Easier said than done. Hard to pass up a decent school when our home school is so, so much worse. I’m hoping to get off the waitlist at Eastern, since humanities is more my child’s speed, but will probably take TPMS in the meantime. Too bad individual families can’t trade!

I agree, trading should be allowed. Eastern turned my math/science-focused child into a humanities-focused child and I didn't anticipate that. Hard to undo the intense training.

If they allowed trades, it would interfere with the independence aspects of the lotteries. Getting into one would mean a greater chance of ending up at the other, as there would be both the initial lottery for that and the potential to trade.

That wouldn't be as important if there were enough seats, or, as in the case of the DCC choice process, eventual allocation for all students among the available locations, whether overcrowded or not.

The one swap that might make sense would be upcounty for downcounty within the same program, say TPMS for Clemente for students who happen to be moving to opposite catchments.

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I was making a flippant remark.

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My child was placed in the waitpool for both. Really disappointed because he is bullied a lot at his current school, and a new cohort of peers (not being placed with his bullies at the home middle school) would do him a world of good. I guess we'll just have to keep our fingers crossed that a spot opens up for him.

For those whose child was given a spot, what is the date by which you have to accept?

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Anonymous wrote:I feel like I missed something. We didn't get any emails (or maybe I missed reading it) about criteria based magnets. I just went online to check but am still not clear. Do you have to apply for this or the school automatically does this for you? My kid is in GT and meets the requirements I see online - A's in Math and Science, 97th percentile (so above the 85th minimum).

If we had to do it ourselves I am going to beat myself over this for years to come. I saw the interest based lottery email and applied but we didn't get in.

We got the letter yesterday. It is automatic. My kid is also all A's in Math and Science, 95th percentile. But was not selected for the lottery. I am confused?

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Anonymous wrote:I feel like I missed something. We didn't get any emails (or maybe I missed reading it) about criteria based magnets. I just went online to check but am still not clear. Do you have to apply for this or the school automatically does this for you? My kid is in GT and meets the requirements I see online - A's in Math and Science, 97th percentile (so above the 85th minimum).

If we had to do it ourselves I am going to beat myself over this for years to come. I saw the interest based lottery email and applied but we didn't get in.

We got the letter yesterday. It is automatic. My kid is also all A's in Math and Science, 95th percentile. But was not selected for the lottery. I am confused?

Is your school a low poverty school?

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Anonymous wrote:My child was placed in the waitpool for both. Really disappointed because he is bullied a lot at his current school, and a new cohort of peers (not being placed with his bullies at the home middle school) would do him a world of good. I guess we'll just have to keep our fingers crossed that a spot opens up for him.

For those whose child was given a spot, what is the date by which you have to accept?

Feb. 2

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My grandson has straight As and a MAP M score of 260, but he was not selected for the TPMS magnet program. He works very hard in school and has a strong passion for STEM. It feels like this is not truly a magnet program anymore. A lottery simply leaves everything for luck to decide. This is like a joke. MCPS should improve their magnet selection.

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Anonymous wrote:I feel like I missed something. We didn't get any emails (or maybe I missed reading it) about criteria based magnets. I just went online to check but am still not clear. Do you have to apply for this or the school automatically does this for you? My kid is in GT and meets the requirements I see online - A's in Math and Science, 97th percentile (so above the 85th minimum).

If we had to do it ourselves I am going to beat myself over this for years to come. I saw the interest based lottery email and applied but we didn't get in.

We got the letter yesterday. It is automatic. My kid is also all A's in Math and Science, 95th percentile. But was not selected for the lottery. I am confused?

What's confusing? It's a lottery. Once you are in the pool, there is no difference between being 99%, all As, etc. and being (I think this is the right number) 85% and having just made the cut to be in the pool.

Some people win lotteries. Some people, usually far more people, lose lotteries. You are in the latter group.

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Anonymous wrote:I feel like I missed something. We didn't get any emails (or maybe I missed reading it) about criteria based magnets. I just went online to check but am still not clear. Do you have to apply for this or the school automatically does this for you? My kid is in GT and meets the requirements I see online - A's in Math and Science, 97th percentile (so above the 85th minimum).

If we had to do it ourselves I am going to beat myself over this for years to come. I saw the interest based lottery email and applied but we didn't get in.

We got the letter yesterday. It is automatic. My kid is also all A's in Math and Science, 95th percentile. But was not selected for the lottery. I am confused?

What's confusing? It's a lottery. Once you are in the pool, there is no difference between being 99%, all As, etc. and being (I think this is the right number) 85% and having just made the cut to be in the pool.

Some people win lotteries. Some people, usually far more people, lose lotteries. You are in the latter group.

I think she meant he wasn’t in the pool.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I feel like I missed something. We didn't get any emails (or maybe I missed reading it) about criteria based magnets. I just went online to check but am still not clear. Do you have to apply for this or the school automatically does this for you? My kid is in GT and meets the requirements I see online - A's in Math and Science, 97th percentile (so above the 85th minimum).

If we had to do it ourselves I am going to beat myself over this for years to come. I saw the interest based lottery email and applied but we didn't get in.

We got the letter yesterday. It is automatic. My kid is also all A's in Math and Science, 95th percentile. But was not selected for the lottery. I am confused?

What's confusing? It's a lottery. Once you are in the pool, there is no difference between being 99%, all As, etc. and being (I think this is the right number) 85% and having just made the cut to be in the pool.

Some people win lotteries. Some people, usually far more people, lose lotteries. You are in the latter group.

The smart thing to do would be to treat advanced academics like a disability that schools have to meet and expand access, but schools don't want to divide all of their kids into tranches like that, so now there's a lottery that people can brag they got into.

I'm not a fan of middle school magnets for many reasons, but the artificial scarcity attached to seats does no one any good. It keeps affluent schools segregated, teaches 12-year-olds they can lose, and makes everyone involved even more petty and competitive over bs than they would be already.

It's perfect for the DMV, but it does bupkes for equality and it's a hell of a way to live.