Magnet MS results - Takoma Park & Eastern - anyone heard today?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:99% of what?

99% out of 100%

Do you not have a child who tested? Its a percentile score. As with most MCPS testing

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow. For those reported with strong number including currently in HGC program, test scores 99% both verbal and quantitative, all As in 5th grade, we also faced similar rejection for Takoma and Eastern. Our kid is among the few who also has the same number. It looks like the new selection process of testing is not looking for gifted students but instead aims to diversify the program. This is too bad.

It makes sense. Better to take a brilliant kid out of a crappy school area where no other kids are performing at their level - and put them in a high achieving environment, than to take a bunch of high achieving kids out of an already high achieving environment and deny the other kid a better chance in life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:99% of what?

99% out of 100%

Do you not have a child who tested? Its a percentile score. As with most MCPS testing

No. 99th percentile in what, compared to whom?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:99% of what?

99% out of 100%

Do you not have a child who tested? Its a percentile score. As with most MCPS testing

No. 99th percentile in what, compared to whom?

You cannot get 100%. 99% is among all the 5th graders taking it. Not easy to get.

[Anonymous]

Wondering what the criteria for selection is. Is it the peer group available in the home middle school which may incline towards middle school, which aren’t high scorers?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:99% of what?

99% out of 100%

Do you not have a child who tested? Its a percentile score. As with most MCPS testing

No. 99th percentile in what, compared to whom?

You cannot get 100%. 99% is among all the 5th graders taking it. Not easy to get.

So somebody who got 99% was in the top 1% of fifth-graders who applied to Takoma/Eastern? Not all fifth-graders -- just the ones who applied? What are the four categories?

[Anonymous]

verbal quantitative nonverbal composite. If a student gets 99% for all the 4 categories and got rejected, it is not justified based on testing for selection.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow. For those reported with strong number including currently in HGC program, test scores 99% both verbal and quantitative, all As in 5th grade, we also faced similar rejection for Takoma and Eastern. Our kid is among the few who also has the same number. It looks like the new selection process of testing is not looking for gifted students but instead aims to diversify the program. This is too bad.

It makes sense. Better to take a brilliant kid out of a crappy school area where no other kids are performing at their level - and put them in a high achieving environment, than to take a bunch of high achieving kids out of an already high achieving environment and deny the other kid a better chance in life.

But presumably that number of brilliant kids in underperforming schools is relatively low. It's hard to see those numbers warranting what seems (anecdotally right now) to be a high rejection rate of students currently performing at a "highly gifted" level. Obviously if the high-performing schools provided comparable gifted instruction, that would be one thing. But they don't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:99% of what?

99% out of 100%

Do you not have a child who tested? Its a percentile score. As with most MCPS testing

99 out of a 100 on national norms for the outside assessment.

[Anonymous]

^^In other words, if you take 1-2 brilliant kids from every underperforming school, that still leaves many slots.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:verbal quantitative nonverbal composite. If a student gets 99% for all the 4 categories and got rejected, it is not justified based on testing for selection.

Thanks. What is the population? The national population? The MCPS population? The population of students who tested? A PP on this thread says it's 99% for national norms.

[Anonymous]

No acceptances yet?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just got a WL letter. 99% in each of the four categories, and HGC. We probably weren't going to go anyway, but I have to say I'm surprised to be WL. Good job for the ones who get in!

There are 3 "categories" and then the Composite score.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:verbal quantitative nonverbal composite. If a student gets 99% for all the 4 categories and got rejected, it is not justified based on testing for selection.

Okay, once again for the dummy parents - 3 CATEGORIES and 1 COMPOSITE Score.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:verbal quantitative nonverbal composite. If a student gets 99% for all the 4 categories and got rejected, it is not justified based on testing for selection.

Thanks. What is the population? The national population? The MCPS population? The population of students who tested? A PP on this thread says it's 99% for national norms.

why are you on this thread?

3000 students tested for 200 total spots and 100 total WL