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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just got an email from TPMS that my kid is in!! Notification letters are also on ParentVue, which is great because our mail had not arrived.

Kid was in the pool for both lotteries, accepted at TPMS which is his home school.[/quote]

I think a certain percentage of spots at TPMS are reserved for home school students. I am not sure if it's the same for Eastern.[/quote]

25 are set aside for those in the TPMS catchment, so there is something of a separate lottery for them (same criteria, different pool).  I think the ratio of seats to total MS population ends up being about 3 times greater.[/quote]

That sounds really wrong. The odds of getting in have to be significantly higher. 
TPMS has roughly 380 kids in each grade each year. If the top 15 percent are in the pool that's 57 kids. If there are 25 inbound set-aside seats that's a 44 percent chance of getting in!
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It's curious, right ? I wonder why the Math/Sci magnet in UC doesn't have the set asides. Just strong local groups in Takoma Park?[/quote]

It’s pretty stunning that MCPS sets aside one-quarter of the spots for a single school.[/quote]

It is one fifth, in one of the most economically and racially diverse schools in the county. It also removes those kids from the broader pool, opening up starts for the rest of the county.[/quote]

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