Also, HGC open houses for parents and accepted students are March 30-April 1.

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Anonymous wrote:Speaking of the HGC, are the letters going out this week? I think they went out around this time last year.

The website says letters will be received after March 15.
http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/curriculum/specialprograms/admissions/applications.aspx

The presentation online says that the parent decisions of whether to accept a spot are due back to MCPS on April 3rd. That makes me think that they will be sent very close to March 15th.

One thing to keep in mind is that there are a lot of definitions of giftedness and not every child who is gifted in MCPS will make it into an HGC.

I'm not just talking about those identified through the 2nd grade screening process but those with high IQ scores (like in the 120s which is considered gifted on some scales).

You don't know from the median scores that kids are getting in with lower than median scores on all three sections. In fact they probably aren't. It could be that many children score higher on two of the sections and then lower on the third.