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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What makes me more angry than anything is that if someone is rejected, and they appeal the BEST outcome is that they get placed in the wait pool, and then it's a lottery from there with low odds.  They will never admit they made a mistake and should have admitted someone outright.  The wait pool is not only unranked (so there's absolutely no ability for anyone in the pool to make secure plans for the future until the first day of school in September), it doesn't even take into account the possibility that there will no longer be a "cohort" remaining after people make middle school choices.

At last night's TMPS open house, the director said that 80 kids were selected for BOTH Eastern and TPMS, so there will be an aggregate of 80 spots opening up because those kids have to pick one or the other.  80 spots is enough to kill quite a few "cohorts" at the local middle schools.
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No, there won’t be 80 spots open. [b]MCPS sent out more acceptance letters over capacity to fill some of the spots[/b]. [/quote]

How do you know that?

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I don’t know about it this year but was told so in the past when MCPS was asked about. They factored it in then and no reason not to do the same now. [/quote]

Exactly.  They've done this before, they know how much to over admit and what size wait pool is appropriate.[/quote]

Yes.  Last year was 149 offers for Eastern, 137 for TPMS.  Those numbers from May 1, 2018 Bethesda Magazine article on magnet admissions info presented to BOE.[/quote]

Assuming 12,000 grade and an overlap of 80 between those admitted to the different magnets, that suggests about 1.5% of all 5th graders were offered a spot.[/quote]

The article says it was about 8000 in the pool "universally" considered - that is, only those in the relevant catchment area, not "all" MCPS 5th graders.   Of the 8000ish, almost 4000 actually tested and so the pool of actual applicants was approx 4000.    So about 7% of those who tested were offered a spot.  Or...3.5% of the 8000 in the universal pool were offered a spot. Then some unknown number came off the waitlist. I think somewhere this year is a FAQ that says something about the size of the waitlist - maybe it was 80 or so?  I am guessing 40+ come off the waitlist by the time school starts in the fall.  Not sure where the magnets get kids to fill spots created by students who withdraw in first or subsequent years.   [/quote]

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