Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:HS programs are still reviewed at respective schools..not at Central office.

Kids can still get into multiple schools.

Not this year. They will be reviewed by the central office. This is the first year.

The only help I gave DD on the test was to remind her not to leak anywhere in the essay her Asian heritage. And she rolled her eyes like I was so ignorant thinking she didn't know that already. Pretty funny, huh?

Not really

Not funny or likely true.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:HS programs are still reviewed at respective schools..not at Central office.

Kids can still get into multiple schools.

Not this year. They will be reviewed by the central office. This is the first year.

The only help I gave DD on the test was to remind her not to leak anywhere in the essay her Asian heritage. And she rolled her eyes like I was so ignorant thinking she didn't know that already. Pretty funny, huh?

That was a smart move!! Otherwise she would have written, in 5 paragraphs, that because she is Asian she's been going to prep classes every single weekend since she was 3 and therefore deserves to be in a magnet program.
You sound dumb. Are you sure you're actually Asian?

Harsh.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:HS programs are still reviewed at respective schools..not at Central office.

Kids can still get into multiple schools.

Not this year. They will be reviewed by the central office. This is the first year.

Oh. What does this mean? Can kids get acceptance to only one program rather than multiple programs like previous years?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:HS programs are still reviewed at respective schools..not at Central office.

Kids can still get into multiple schools.

Not this year. They will be reviewed by the central office. This is the first year.

The only help I gave DD on the test was to remind her not to leak anywhere in the essay her Asian heritage. And she rolled her eyes like I was so ignorant thinking she didn't know that already. Pretty funny, huh?

That was a smart move!! Otherwise she would have written, in 5 paragraphs, that because she is Asian she's been going to prep classes every single weekend since she was 3 and therefore deserves to be in a magnet program.
You sound dumb. Are you sure you're actually Asian?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:HS programs are still reviewed at respective schools..not at Central office.

Kids can still get into multiple schools.

Not this year. They will be reviewed by the central office. This is the first year.

The only help I gave DD on the test was to remind her not to leak anywhere in the essay her Asian heritage. And she rolled her eyes like I was so ignorant thinking she didn't know that already. Pretty funny, huh?

No.

It's illegal for MCPS to discriminate based on race/ethnicity and ethnic origin. Are you saying that you expect MCPS to do it anyway?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:HS programs are still reviewed at respective schools..not at Central office.

Kids can still get into multiple schools.

Not this year. They will be reviewed by the central office. This is the first year.

The only help I gave DD on the test was to remind her not to leak anywhere in the essay her Asian heritage. And she rolled her eyes like I was so ignorant thinking she didn't know that already. Pretty funny, huh?

Really, truly, they cannot legally take race into account. Yes they can take socioeconomic status and cohort and neighborhood and all that, but they truly cannot take race.

Of course MCPS will not reject a student citing based on her race, but let's not fool ourselves that the primary purpose of the maget "reformation" is not to reduce the representation of Asian students. It's been done successfully in elementary and middle school magnet programs. One can always argue that smarter students of other races are discovered under the new system, thus less spots for Asian students. but why risk? especially when MCPS tried so hard to hide what exactly were used for selection.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:HS programs are still reviewed at respective schools..not at Central office.

Kids can still get into multiple schools.

Not this year. They will be reviewed by the central office. This is the first year.

The only help I gave DD on the test was to remind her not to leak anywhere in the essay her Asian heritage. And she rolled her eyes like I was so ignorant thinking she didn't know that already. Pretty funny, huh?

Really, truly, they cannot legally take race into account. Yes they can take socioeconomic status and cohort and neighborhood and all that, but they truly cannot take race.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:HS programs are still reviewed at respective schools..not at Central office.

Kids can still get into multiple schools.

Not this year. They will be reviewed by the central office. This is the first year.

The only help I gave DD on the test was to remind her not to leak anywhere in the essay her Asian heritage. And she rolled her eyes like I was so ignorant thinking she didn't know that already. Pretty funny, huh?

Not really

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:HS programs are still reviewed at respective schools..not at Central office.

Kids can still get into multiple schools.

Not this year. They will be reviewed by the central office. This is the first year.

The only help I gave DD on the test was to remind her not to leak anywhere in the essay her Asian heritage. And she rolled her eyes like I was so ignorant thinking she didn't know that already. Pretty funny, huh?

Anonymous wrote:HS programs are still reviewed at respective schools..not at Central office.

Kids can still get into multiple schools.

Not this year. They will be reviewed by the central office. This is the first year.

Anonymous wrote:Just FYI parts of the test apparently are “easy” for some students as last year the median math score for admitted students to Poolesville Global ecology was a perfect score and one wrong for SMACs.

I think not. Not according to some actual posts from last year with actual results. But whatever..
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/782422.page

Just FYI parts of the test apparently are “easy” for some students as last year the median math score for admitted students to Poolesville Global ecology was a perfect score and one wrong for SMACs.

Anonymous wrote:Question, if anyone knows it. Was there a limit on the length of the essay answer? My child was confused on that point and was wondering whether the fact that they requested more space from the computer would count against them.

dono..

Question, if anyone knows it. Was there a limit on the length of the essay answer? My child was confused on that point and was wondering whether the fact that they requested more space from the computer would count against them.

HS programs are still reviewed at respective schools..not at Central office.

Kids can still get into multiple schools.