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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lay it on me DCUM, fairly new to the area and my kid scored a 239 on reading and 231 on math just now for MAP. No prep/extra outside of school tutoring and generally above average student but nothing too spectacular.

How are those scores? Are we out of the running for magnet MS (not that interested but curious)? Is my kid doomed for failure? Give me those spicy comments   :twisted: [/quote]

OP, I just looked up my kids 5th grade fall MAP scores. He got 242 for math and 235 for reading. He got in to TPMS later that year and waitlisted at Eastern (did not get off the waitlist). Also got 99 percent all around on CoGat. I don’t think you are out of the running for Eastern.[/quote]
Wow. My child - female, if that matters - got 249 for math and 241 for reading (with 99% on two CoGats and 92% on the NV. all As and high PARCCs) - got into Eastern and not even waitlisted at TPMS.  FWIW, the only child from our former ES who did get into Takoma had some astronomical MAP-M.
IMHO, there's a lot of arbitrary picking and choosing involved in magnet selection, and a lot of balancing, too. I do believe they try to take a couple of kids from each school.[/quote]
MCPS website says the selection is school-blind. So I don't understand how they can ensure every elementary school is represented. Also some people claim that because of this every school being represented issue, CES kids are penalized. Can someone explain how they can make sure every school is represented when the process is school blind?
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Blinding can be done in many ways. Most common way for blinding is by masking names using numbers. For example, Takoma park ES will become School 1001, and college garden ES will become school 1002. The school number is randomly generated to blind selection committee. So that selection committee won't give a preference to a certain elementary school.

If they want to mix all students in one big pool for selection, then it's not called school-blind. It will be called school-shuffled or no school adjustment.

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