2024 MS Criteria Based Lottery Results

[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 entered for the lottery. I am confused?

Is your school a low poverty school?

Shows Farms at 35. Are these taken into consideration?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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 entered for the lottery. I am confused?

Is your school a low poverty school?

Shows Farms at 35. Are these taken into consideration?

Yes, low poverty schools have a bar to getting in (that is the local norms on the MAP are adjusted to the higher achievements of that school). I’d guess that 35 percent FARMS is medium in which case it’s unlikely that 95 percentile wouldn’t get in the pool. It would be worth calling to check. Remember it’s the fall MAP that they look at, not the winter one.

[Anonymous]

Is that the FA23-24 on the MAP?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is that the FA23-24 on the MAP?

Yes

[Anonymous]

Thank you so much. I really appreciate your responses. I thought my kid will be entered into the drawing based on the grade and MAP-R alone. On the website it says evaluation of prior grades and assessments.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thank you so much. I really appreciate your responses. I thought my kid will be entered into the drawing based on the grade and MAP-R alone. On the website it says evaluation of prior grades and assessments.

I would call up and ask for more information specific for your child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thank you so much. I really appreciate your responses. I thought my kid will be entered into the drawing based on the grade and MAP-R alone. On the website it says evaluation of prior grades and assessments.

Your kid may have been entered in the pool but you never got any notifications. I emailed [e-mail], mentioning my kids student id, school name and asked if my kid was in the criteria based pool and got a response the very next morning saying my kid was waitlisted for both programs upcounty. I attached the last MAP results and first marking period report I saw on studentvue. They seem to be quick in responding. Our school is 30% FARMS.

[Anonymous]

I wonder if within the lottery they have subsets - one lottery for low farms, one for medium farms and one for high farms and they pull kids from each subset to fill the magnets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thank you so much. I really appreciate your responses. I thought my kid will be entered into the drawing based on the grade and MAP-R alone. On the website it says evaluation of prior grades and assessments.

Your kid may have been entered in the pool but you never got any notifications. I emailed [e-mail], mentioning my kids student id, school name and asked if my kid was in the criteria based pool and got a response the very next morning saying my kid was waitlisted for both programs upcounty. I attached the last MAP results and first marking period report I saw on studentvue. They seem to be quick in responding. Our school is 30% FARMS.

Again, settle down. Notifications only just went out. They haven’t arrived to everyone yet. Wait.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thank you so much. I really appreciate your responses. I thought my kid will be entered into the drawing based on the grade and MAP-R alone. On the website it says evaluation of prior grades and assessments.

Your kid may have been entered in the pool but you never got any notifications. I emailed [e-mail], mentioning my kids student id, school name and asked if my kid was in the criteria based pool and got a response the very next morning saying my kid was waitlisted for both programs upcounty. I attached the last MAP results and first marking period report I saw on studentvue. They seem to be quick in responding. Our school is 30% FARMS.

Again, settle down. Notifications only just went out. They haven’t arrived to everyone yet. Wait.

Why do you keep repeating this? If PP wanted to know if her kid is in the pool, she can call or email them if she wants to know soon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thank you so much. I really appreciate your responses. I thought my kid will be entered into the drawing based on the grade and MAP-R alone. On the website it says evaluation of prior grades and assessments.

Your kid may have been entered in the pool but you never got any notifications. I emailed [e-mail], mentioning my kids student id, school name and asked if my kid was in the criteria based pool and got a response the very next morning saying my kid was waitlisted for both programs upcounty. I attached the last MAP results and first marking period report I saw on studentvue. They seem to be quick in responding. Our school is 30% FARMS.

Again, settle down. Notifications only just went out. They haven’t arrived to everyone yet. Wait.

Why do you keep repeating this? If PP wanted to know if her kid is in the pool, she can call or email them if she wants to know soon.

I wasn’t the person who said it initially but PP was freaking out when she didn’t receive an item in the mail the very first day that anyone received which is pretty nuts. No you don’t need to appeal, email the principal, complain or anything else at that point. And she keeps posting about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

so true

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thank you so much. I really appreciate your responses. I thought my kid will be entered into the drawing based on the grade and MAP-R alone. On the website it says evaluation of prior grades and assessments.

Your kid may have been entered in the pool but you never got any notifications. I emailed [e-mail], mentioning my kids student id, school name and asked if my kid was in the criteria based pool and got a response the very next morning saying my kid was waitlisted for both programs upcounty. I attached the last MAP results and first marking period report I saw on studentvue. They seem to be quick in responding. Our school is 30% FARMS.

Again, settle down. Notifications only just went out. They haven’t arrived to everyone yet. Wait.

Why do you keep repeating this? If PP wanted to know if her kid is in the pool, she can call or email them if she wants to know soon.

I wasn’t the person who said it initially but PP was freaking out when she didn’t receive an item in the mail the very first day that anyone received which is pretty nuts. No you don’t need to appeal, email the principal, complain or anything else at that point. And she keeps posting about it.

There are two of us posting about it. I was the anxious one and I now know where my kid stands. Nothing wrong in emailing dccaps if people want to know the results sooner. I probably shouldn't have emailed the principal though but I am glad I emailed dccaps.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Which ES?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Some states do this through gifted IEPs.