Anonymous
Post 12/28/2025 13:49     Subject: Re:Any high MAP+M(290+), straight As, and strong stem honor/award kids did not get in PHS/Blair SMACS?
Anonymous wrote:You’re not “just curious.” You’re clearly upset your kid didn’t get in.


I'm not OP, but I'm definitely upset my 7th grade child (290+, all As, and various Math awards) won't even have an access to Blair magnet due to the stupid region thing.
Anonymous
Post 12/28/2025 13:42     Subject: Any high MAP+M(290+), straight As, and strong stem honor/award kids did not get in PHS/Blair SMACS?
Depends OP is your kid coming from a private?
If so then straight A's means nothing.

Why are you asking now?

No one knows yet
Anonymous
Post 12/28/2025 13:40     Subject: Any high MAP+M(290+), straight As, and strong stem honor/award kids did not get in PHS/Blair SMACS?
Anonymous wrote:Straight As is meaningless given how easy it is to get there. And there are a ton of kids with MAP scores in that range. Clearly an impressive kid, but unfortunately not unique or special.


This isn't Virginia. There aren't a "ton of kids" in that range in every grade level. There is a small community of math drillers.

But there are a ton of kids with lower scores that are still high enough to be in the pool completing for spots.

Anonymous
Post 12/28/2025 13:38     Subject: Any high MAP+M(290+), straight As, and strong stem honor/award kids did not get in PHS/Blair SMACS?
Anonymous wrote:Straight As is meaningless given how easy it is to get there. And there are a ton of kids with MAP scores in that range. Clearly an impressive kid, but unfortunately not unique or special.


Every child is unique and special.
Anonymous
Post 12/28/2025 13:38     Subject: Re:Any high MAP+M(290+), straight As, and strong stem honor/award kids did not get in PHS/Blair SMACS?
Anonymous wrote:You’re not “just curious.” You’re clearly upset your kid didn’t get in.


Decisions aren't announced yet.
Anonymous
Post 12/28/2025 13:22     Subject: Any high MAP+M(290+), straight As, and strong stem honor/award kids did not get in PHS/Blair SMACS?
Straight As is meaningless given how easy it is to get there. And there are a ton of kids with MAP scores in that range. Clearly an impressive kid, but unfortunately not unique or special.
Anonymous
Post 12/28/2025 11:07     Subject: Re:Any high MAP+M(290+), straight As, and strong stem honor/award kids did not get in PHS/Blair SMACS?
You’re not “just curious.” You’re clearly upset your kid didn’t get in.
Anonymous
Post 12/28/2025 10:57     Subject: Any high MAP+M(290+), straight As, and strong stem honor/award kids did not get in PHS/Blair SMACS?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Yes. Nothing is a guarantee. Especially if the committee thinks the application is written by a striver mom, not the kid.

"290+" is a mid score, unless that "+" is doing a lot of work.


Or the committee thinks that the test score was lucky and not consistent with the rest of performance across other areas of evaluation.


It’s probably pretty rare to reject such students with strong stem awards and high MAP M. Outliers always exist but maybe with some reasons
Anonymous
Post 12/28/2025 09:39     Subject: Any high MAP+M(290+), straight As, and strong stem honor/award kids did not get in PHS/Blair SMACS?
Anonymous wrote:Yes. Nothing is a guarantee. Especially if the committee thinks the application is written by a striver mom, not the kid.

"290+" is a mid score, unless that "+" is doing a lot of work.


Or the committee thinks that the test score was lucky and not consistent with the rest of performance across other areas of evaluation.
Anonymous
Post 12/27/2025 22:23     Subject: Any high MAP+M(290+), straight As, and strong stem honor/award kids did not get in PHS/Blair SMACS?
Yes. Nothing is a guarantee. Especially if the committee thinks the application is written by a striver mom, not the kid.

"290+" is a mid score, unless that "+" is doing a lot of work.
Anonymous
Post 12/27/2025 15:44     Subject: Any high MAP+M(290+), straight As, and strong stem honor/award kids did not get in PHS/Blair SMACS?
Op probably means previous years

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Just curious...


Results aren't even out, man.
Anonymous
Post 12/27/2025 14:16     Subject: Any high MAP+M(290+), straight As, and strong stem honor/award kids did not get in PHS/Blair SMACS?
Do you have nothing better to do OP while you wait for results?
Anonymous
Post 12/27/2025 11:39     Subject: Any high MAP+M(290+), straight As, and strong stem honor/award kids did not get in PHS/Blair SMACS?
Anonymous wrote:Just curious...


Probably pretty rare.
Anonymous
Post 12/27/2025 11:37     Subject: Any high MAP+M(290+), straight As, and strong stem honor/award kids did not get in PHS/Blair SMACS?
Anonymous wrote:Just curious...


Results aren't even out, man.
Anonymous
Post 12/27/2025 09:04     Subject: Any high MAP+M(290+), straight As, and strong stem honor/award kids did not get in PHS/Blair SMACS?
Just curious...