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[quote=Anonymous][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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Your math is wrong. That 380 per grade (I thought it was 400) includes the magnet kids, 100 of whom are from outside the TPMS area.[/quote]

The math isn't wrong but just forgot to back out the magnet kids which makes it even more likely that in bounds kids from TPMS will get in.

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Er forgetting to remove 100 kid means your math is wrong!![/quote]

You sound very literal. It's not helpful to be a jerk. People are trying to be helpful by doing back of the envelope calculations and the crowdsourcing is helpful. [/quote]

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