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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My wait list letter said they had 6200 kids apply and something like 576 spots.  They are celebrating the fact that they had so many more kids apply this year.  Excellent, I guess. It it just means you're rejecting more 3rd graders who are interested in being challenged further!  What in the world??

This should not be  like college applications.  MCPS should be trying to accommodate ALL of these kids - most likely all very hard working and bright and motivated.  [/quote]

Hear Hear![/quote]

So any kid whose parent sends the form in should be considered gifted??  If that is what you are looking for stay in your home school...that is where they accommodate all kids.  And image how many more than 6K would apply if acceptance was guaranteed.[/quote]

6200 kids applying appears to be about half of the 3rd graders in the county (based on info here, which shows ~12,300 2nd graders last year: http://gis.mcpsmd.org/demographicpdfs/Demo_OfficialEnrollment2016Revised120215.pdf).  [/quote]

So, for those of you disappointed lets get some facts :)

1. Total number of students in the 3rd grade: 12,300 (approx)
2. Number of kids that took the test: 6,200 (~50% of total)
3. Number of students that got accepted: 576 (9.3% of tested or 4.7% of total)

For the particular case of Lucy Barnsley center. There were approx. 85 gifted kids accepted last year. MCPS website lists Lucy Barnsley as covering 4 high schools regions (Richard Montgomery, Walter Johnson, Rockville and Wheaton) and 18 elementary schools. That means on average 4.7 kids from each ES got accepted to this particular center. Considering there are 5 to 6 classes per grade on most of the ES we get a less then 1 kid/class average. In other words you get the smartest kid in most of the 3rd grade classes from each school and you form the HG program.

Just to get an idea of how "easy" it is to get in the program.

Congrats for kids (and parents) that get accepted!
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The problem is what happens to the handful of children who are bright and hardworking but did not make it into the HGC?  What will MCPS do with them to ensure they continued to be appropriately challenged?[/quote]

Do you believe they aren't challenged in their home school?   At all?   My understanding based on observation is that there is differentiation within the classroom (at least at our ES).[/quote]

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