Anonymous
Post 09/07/2013 21:38     Subject: Takoma Park Magnet
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Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Is it harder to get into magnet MS than it is to get into HGC or magnet HS? Because this is a 17% acceptance rate!!


Hard to say. There is a humanities MS magnet at Eastern and both a STEM and Humanities magnet at Roberto Clemente. If each is around 100 kids, then that's 425 or so spots. There are about 350 HGC spots, and the number of kids who applied at each varies. The principal at ours said that ~350 applied for 50 slots, but I think this is higher than normal. We're probably not going to apply to the MS magnet because of the long commute; over an hour and a half on the bus. I know several other kids in the same boat. It's my feeling that the MS might pull from a smaller area because they're not spread out like the HGCs, but I have no data to back that up. I've heard of kids that didn't get into the HGC who made it into the MS magnet and vice-versa.


I think RC has only 100 spots, 50 for each program.


If that's the case, then I think the MS is probably more competitive to get into.

Does RC Math magnet also have a neighborhood quota similar to TP?
Anonymous
Post 09/07/2013 16:26     Subject: Takoma Park Magnet
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Is it harder to get into magnet MS than it is to get into HGC or magnet HS? Because this is a 17% acceptance rate!!


Hard to say. There is a humanities MS magnet at Eastern and both a STEM and Humanities magnet at Roberto Clemente. If each is around 100 kids, then that's 425 or so spots. There are about 350 HGC spots, and the number of kids who applied at each varies. The principal at ours said that ~350 applied for 50 slots, but I think this is higher than normal. We're probably not going to apply to the MS magnet because of the long commute; over an hour and a half on the bus. I know several other kids in the same boat. It's my feeling that the MS might pull from a smaller area because they're not spread out like the HGCs, but I have no data to back that up. I've heard of kids that didn't get into the HGC who made it into the MS magnet and vice-versa.


I think RC has only 100 spots, 50 for each program.


If that's the case, then I think the MS is probably more competitive to get into.
Anonymous
Post 09/07/2013 12:18     Subject: Re:Takoma Park Magnet
Is everyone here talking about the same thing? There is a Primary Magnet at Takoma Elementary and a STEM magnet at Takoma Park Middle School.
Anonymous
Post 09/07/2013 12:06     Subject: Takoma Park Magnet
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Is it harder to get into magnet MS than it is to get into HGC or magnet HS? Because this is a 17% acceptance rate!!


Hard to say. There is a humanities MS magnet at Eastern and both a STEM and Humanities magnet at Roberto Clemente. If each is around 100 kids, then that's 425 or so spots. There are about 350 HGC spots, and the number of kids who applied at each varies. The principal at ours said that ~350 applied for 50 slots, but I think this is higher than normal. We're probably not going to apply to the MS magnet because of the long commute; over an hour and a half on the bus. I know several other kids in the same boat. It's my feeling that the MS might pull from a smaller area because they're not spread out like the HGCs, but I have no data to back that up. I've heard of kids that didn't get into the HGC who made it into the MS magnet and vice-versa.


I think RC has only 100 spots, 50 for each program.
Anonymous
Post 09/07/2013 09:33     Subject: Takoma Park Magnet
At my child's HGC, 16 out of 23 who applied were accepted.
Anonymous
Post 09/07/2013 09:31     Subject: Takoma Park Magnet
I've heard that the HGCs have about a 20% acceptance rate (but of course with both not everyone applies).
Anonymous
Post 09/07/2013 09:27     Subject: Takoma Park Magnet
I was told that in 2012, about 500 kids applied to Eastern for 100 spots, and about 600 kids applied to TPMS for 125 spots.

TPMS is harder to get into than Eastern but only slightly, in terms of percentage accepted.

Not all the HCG kids who apply to the MS magnets get in -- my impression was that about half of them went on to a magnet but that doesn't tell you who applied.

MS magnets pull from a much larger area (about half the county or more) than the invididual HCGs do.
Anonymous
Post 09/07/2013 09:11     Subject: Takoma Park Magnet
Anonymous wrote:Is it harder to get into magnet MS than it is to get into HGC or magnet HS? Because this is a 17% acceptance rate!!


Hard to say. There is a humanities MS magnet at Eastern and both a STEM and Humanities magnet at Roberto Clemente. If each is around 100 kids, then that's 425 or so spots. There are about 350 HGC spots, and the number of kids who applied at each varies. The principal at ours said that ~350 applied for 50 slots, but I think this is higher than normal. We're probably not going to apply to the MS magnet because of the long commute; over an hour and a half on the bus. I know several other kids in the same boat. It's my feeling that the MS might pull from a smaller area because they're not spread out like the HGCs, but I have no data to back that up. I've heard of kids that didn't get into the HGC who made it into the MS magnet and vice-versa.
Anonymous
Post 09/07/2013 08:54     Subject: Re:Takoma Park Magnet
Is there still a magnet for Takoma elem? How are kids selected at such a young age?
Anonymous
Post 09/06/2013 22:12     Subject: Takoma Park Magnet
Is it harder to get into magnet MS than it is to get into HGC or magnet HS? Because this is a 17% acceptance rate!!
Anonymous
Post 09/06/2013 17:40     Subject: Takoma Park Magnet
About 700 apply.
Anonymous
Post 09/06/2013 17:40     Subject: Takoma Park Magnet
That is correct.
Anonymous
Post 09/06/2013 17:35     Subject: Takoma Park Magnet
125 I believe with 25 of those reserved for kids kin the TP cluster.
Anonymous
Post 09/06/2013 17:19     Subject: Takoma Park Magnet
Does anyone know how many students are accepted each year to the magnet program at Takoma Park?