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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kids zoned for TPMS (so, Takoma Park and East Silver Spring) Jane a slight advantage in that lottery.  As PP said, RM also has preference at the level.

There are also all school magnets (so, no application) but I don't know much about those.[/quote]
TPMS Math and Science magnet and RMIB magnet are not lotteries.  You have to take tests, write application essays, get letters of recommendation etc.  But it is easier if you are zoned for these schools because TPMS has a certain number of slots for local kids - 20 or 25.  I can't remember the number but it is a lot.  I don't know how many kids are admitted from Julius West Middle School into RMIB but again it is a lot - around 20 or more.

The only all school magnet I am aware of is Poolesville but I don't know how that application process works.  I know they have different learning communities you have to apply to (Math and Science, Global Ecology and maybe something else) but I don't know if you are guaranteed admission to at least one if you live in the catchment area.  this should be easy to google.[/quote]

Isn't TPMS a universal screening for all 5th graders and then slots are awarded by lottery among those who are qualified?[/quote]

This, at least this year.  I have a 5th grader and the only active participation in any of the selection processes is one Google form where you can rank the choice magnets (we're out of boundary) = Loiederman, Argyle, and Parkland.  Access to the selectivity magnets ( = Takoma MS and Eastern MS for the down-county consortium) is based on entry to the lottery, which is done by MCPS through the universal screening that pp referred to above.  This means no application, no cogat tests, no teacher recommendations, etc., and there is also no publicized standard for lottery qualification (even MCPS surely does not not know what the standards will be until they have gathered the relevant data, including I think MAP scores).  Once the lottery pool is selected, they will run the lotteries for the selective math/science and humanities magnets.

So if you are hoping for one of the selective magnets, your point of interest is whether your student is selected for the lottery--but you won't know that anyway unless you 'win' in the lottery and receive an invitation to the magnet.  There are no exclusion notifications planned, so far as I know.

The stats circulated several weeks ago on MS magnet access are interesting.  To me it *looks* like you have a reasonable chance at a choice magnet seat even if you have to wait for lottery round 2 and even if you are out of boundary, but that the odds for the selectivity magnets, no matter where you live, are vanishingly low.  There are some subtleties involved in re-norming test scores for the lotteries, I believe, but even so the net outcome is that most students who want or need more intense academic experiences are going to be accessing those at their home/zoned school, rather than at a selectivity magnet.

My DC is strongly interested in one of the choice ( = not selectivity) magnets, so we are not curtailing but also not strongly encouraging that enthusiasm in light of the placement process.  What will happen next year, however, is anybody's guess right now.[/quote]

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