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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's a (hopefully correct) summary of Fall MAP scores reported in this thread so far. Although maybe we are all focusing too much on Fall MAP scores, but there really aren't a lot of other data points to consider.

MAP-M and Math magnet results:
232 - not in pool
234 - not in pool
242  - in pool
244 - in pool (selected)
245 - in pool
252 - in pool (selected)
255 - not in pool
255 - in pool
262 - in pool
268 - in pool
272 - in pool (and in-bounds for TPMS, but not selected)
283 - in pool

MAP-R and Humanities magnet results:
235 - in pool
235 - in pool
237 - in pool
238 - in pool
239- in pool (selected)
240- not in pool
240 - in pool
240 - in pool
240 - in pool
245 - in pool
245 - in pool
256 - in pool[/quote]

Thanks for compiling PP.  It looks like they may have used the 240 cut-off for TPMS.  This has been the traditional recommendation line for AIM in 6th, however it is not the Fall test that they usually consider.  Interesting.[/quote]

Add 240 map M and NOT in pool.  [/quote]

There goes another theory!  Any Bs in math?  [/quote]

I wonder if they did do cutoffs by each school or type of school (like the CogAT percentiles).  240 is the 98%ile in the Fall, so that is a pretty steep cut-off for a lottery (not saying it shouldn't be steep, but for MCPS that is surprisingly steep).  [/quote]

As they said MAP is one of several factors that are weighed there's likely not a hard cutoff but a score that is derived from a combination of those things that determines pool eligibility.[/quote]

Last year my child had higher map scores than all of these and only got waitlisted for one.  It makes zero sense how they do it.[/quote]
Probably home school is a big factor.[/quote]

Actually, it isn't. This is a lottery. Selections are from the pool at random. It issn't about the best score.[/quote]
The "lottery" does not explain how people with MAP-M of 255 and MAP-R of 240 did not even make the pool. In addition, I would be weary of assuming that there was just one pool. A random lottery could result in outcomes that MCPS may not find satisfactory, e.g. unequal gender, geographic or racial outcomes. My assumption is that to establish a facially racially neutral process, they allocated spots to each home school (or cluster) and created separate pools for each home school or cluster. The creation of the pools probably was done on a 50/50 gender basis. This would mimic sort of what they do with the CES selection process where they look at home school cohorts as a factor.[/quote]

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