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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s shocking that your kid didn’t get in with 290. I can’t imagine why not.[/quote]

She said it was over 290. How many kids at TPMS have that score?![/quote]

There are multiple we know over that score especially those who were travelling to HS for their Maths. 
For good or bad, kids now a days are highly competitive. 
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I’ve seen cases where students with MAP scores in the 290s didn’t get into Blair SMACS, and considering that the median MAP Math score for admitted students is 273, it seems like MAP scores alone aren’t the deciding factor. My kid told me that most of the students around him have scores in the 270s, which makes me think his peer group might not be the very top tier. I also heard that some 8th graders are taking Algebra 2.

My kid got into TPMS through the lottery (but got into CES based on their scores—99th percentile on the CogAT and MAP- m). I’ve also heard that one of the middle schools in the W cluster offers Algebra 2. Either way, there are just so many strong students in MCPS. My guess is that a 99th percentile MAP score elsewhere might be more like the 90th percentile in MCPS.

Like I mentioned before, my kid is great at writing essays. He loves insects and animals and has been raising and observing all kinds of bugs, spiders, and arthropods at home. He’s gone to nature center camps every year and spend weekends at nature centers, parks, and the natural history museum. He  wrote all of that honestly in his essay, and it really fit the Global Ecology program perfectly. But in the end, he didn’t get invited to Blair.  He did make the waitpool, maybe that’s because of his high MAP Math score?

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