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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid's map-m jumped from 277 in fall to 296 in winter. Will definitely appeal use this as part of the evidence if not accepted. I know some ppl did it last year and succeeded so definitely worth a try and tell your kid to treat this round seriously.[/quote]

Based on past year results I don't think your childs map score is well within the range of kids that are accepted. If they didn't get in it would have been another of the criteria like CogAT.[/quote]

Errr I mean your childs MAP score IS safely within the range of kids that were admitted in years past. [/quote]

NP here. PP, can you give us a sense of the range of MAP-M scores you’ve seen in years past, for admitted students? [/quote]

The process changed two years ago so anything earlier is irrelevant. DC got in last year (on appeal) with a score in range of 265-270. The scores approaching 300 usually mean the kid received outside instruction beyond compacted math. It’s an achievement test not an IQ test. There are some 6th graders at TPMS who are in 7th grade magnet math because somehow they covered the 6th grade magnet material in elementary. But most did not attend schools that had that option (nor an out of school program). This test is not intended to distinguish among the 99th percentile, and even if it was, at that point you are mostly measuring opportunity to learn.[/quote]
PP, what factors did you list in your appeal? Genuinely curious.
There's a kid in DC's class who's scoring close to 300 on MAP-M, and he says his father's teaching him math on the side, 'for fun'.[/quote]

We tried to explain why we thought TPMS was a much better fit than our home middle school with enriched classes (specific to our DC’s previous educational experiences). I don’t know what worked for others, or whether kids who did get in from appeal tended to be from certain parts of the county or similar in some way. They are definitely not just looking for the highest MAP scores.[/quote]

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