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Anonymous wrote:Wait listed at RM. Small white envelope. Hopefully double acceptance will choose Blair.

I think a lot of seats will become available for RM.

Sorry, do not keep your hopes too high. Unfortunately success to get off waitlist for RM and Bliar is very small. Do not forget that waitlist pool is big and not ranked.

Well, I'm fairly certain at least one seat will become available for RM.

Anonymous wrote:My DD waitlisted for Poolesville SMCS and Global, any suggestions to help increase the chances of acceptance???

Several years ago we did appeal in this situation (it was denied), but also my child wrote additional Essay explaining why PHS program would be great fit, and got extra recommendations from teachers who originally did not provide recommendations.
Since additional data that was added during appeal end up in file, I believe it helped in second round. So child was invited to both. Good luck. There would be many seats open. Very often Poolesville invites same kids to multiple programs.

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Anonymous wrote:Wait listed at RM. Small white envelope. Hopefully double acceptance will choose Blair.

I think a lot of seats will become available for RM.

Sorry, do not keep your hopes too high. Unfortunately success to get off waitlist for RM and Bliar is very small. Do not forget that waitlist pool is big and not ranked.

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Anonymous wrote:Rejection to PHS Global. Would someone that was accepted mind sharing their testing scores?

According to magnet coordinator median scores of accepted children:
Global - Math 87, English 85.
SMCS - Math 91, English 85.
Pay attention this is Median, not Mean. So you have kids above and below.
Also they also used essay, application, recommendations and many more characteristics.

Can someone share the testing scores (median) for RM and PHS Humanities?

Is the Blair SMACS and Humanities scores much different than PHS?

+1 I'm also interested in seeing RM median scores-I assume the median is of accepted students.

Not sure what median scores for RM were but the median percentile scores for language section for accepted students was 90 and median percentile score for math was 90. Plus 82% accepted had GPA of 4.0.

DD scored 93% percentile, math percentile 87%, didn't get in.

sorry - 93% was for the language section.

Not even waitlisted? These are very high scores...

Anonymous wrote:Accepted PHS SMCS and Humanities, waitpooled Global and RM.

Wow, this is very interesting. I thought that most kids who applied to SMCS and Global and were are accepted to SMCS, would be accepted to Global too.
Plus the median scores for Global are very similar to SMCS.

My DD waitlisted for Poolesville SMCS and Global, any suggestions to help increase the chances of acceptance???

Anonymous wrote:Wait listed at RM. Small white envelope. Hopefully double acceptance will choose Blair.

I think a lot of seats will become available for RM.

Anonymous wrote:Any idea how many students applied vs how many seats are available?

Is it 30% acceptance rate?

I think it really depends how you calculate it. I think 800-900 apply for RMIB & Blair each but 100 are accepted from each. Who knows how much overlap that incliudes. Do you calculate what is accepted from how many applied or total seats from total applied? So many kids apply for more than 1 program. Some apply to a bunch (like my kid) some know more what they want and apply to only one of just a few. Some get into 1 some 3 some 5 some waitlisted. My kid got into 5, so there will be 4 seats opening up. But, hard to know success rate since some friends applied to 1 or 2 and others applied to a bunch. I guess you try to make an educated guess on the extent of overlapping applications to figure it out...

Anonymous wrote:Any idea how many students applied vs how many seats are available?

Is it 30% acceptance rate?

More than 1000 for RMIB for 125 accepted.

More than 650 at Blair STEM for 100 spots.

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Anonymous wrote:07:30 here. So maybe the fretting and postal conjecture paid off? DD just found out she got into Blair Magnet, Blair CAP, RMIB, Wheaton Eng & Wheaton Biomed. Yahoo!

Both Blairs & RM came in a manila envelope (Blairs were thinner w/ $1.21 postage, RM was THICK w/ $2+ postage). Wheatons came in a white business sized envelope (I'll admit that I held them up to the light and say the words "Notice of Intent" which told me it was good news before DD was home to open it)!

Thrilled for my girl but also for waitlisted friends. If you are waitlisted -- send in whatever info/references you've got to sweeten the pot. Places will open up!!!

Dang, your daughter is a beast! Good luck making a decision.

Aww, thanks. She worked really REALLY hard on the applications. And, her teachers really like her. And, I think she is a beast in a sense. She's really old-timey and prudish and crotchety, & we call her "Grammie," but she is a beast in her own weird way!

Accepted RMIB, PHS Global, SMACS, Humanities.

Any idea how many students applied vs how many seats are available?

Is it 30% acceptance rate?

Anonymous wrote:07:30 here. So maybe the fretting and postal conjecture paid off? DD just found out she got into Blair Magnet, Blair CAP, RMIB, Wheaton Eng & Wheaton Biomed. Yahoo!

Both Blairs & RM came in a manila envelope (Blairs were thinner w/ $1.21 postage, RM was THICK w/ $2+ postage). Wheatons came in a white business sized envelope (I'll admit that I held them up to the light and say the words "Notice of Intent" which told me it was good news before DD was home to open it)!

Thrilled for my girl but also for waitlisted friends. If you are waitlisted -- send in whatever info/references you've got to sweeten the pot. Places will open up!!!

Dang, your daughter is a beast! Good luck making a decision.

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Anonymous wrote:Rejection to PHS Global. Would someone that was accepted mind sharing their testing scores?

According to magnet coordinator median scores of accepted children:
Global - Math 87, English 85.
SMCS - Math 91, English 85.
Pay attention this is Median, not Mean. So you have kids above and below.
Also they also used essay, application, recommendations and many more characteristics.

Can someone share the testing scores (median) for RM and PHS Humanities?

Is the Blair SMACS and Humanities scores much different than PHS?

+1 I'm also interested in seeing RM median scores-I assume the median is of accepted students.

Not sure what median scores for RM were but the median percentile scores for language section for accepted students was 90 and median percentile score for math was 90. Plus 82% accepted had GPA of 4.0.

DD scored 93% percentile, math percentile 87%, didn't get in.

sorry - 93% was for the language section.

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Anonymous wrote:Rejection to PHS Global. Would someone that was accepted mind sharing their testing scores?

According to magnet coordinator median scores of accepted children:
Global - Math 87, English 85.
SMCS - Math 91, English 85.
Pay attention this is Median, not Mean. So you have kids above and below.
Also they also used essay, application, recommendations and many more characteristics.

Can someone share the testing scores (median) for RM and PHS Humanities?

Is the Blair SMACS and Humanities scores much different than PHS?

+1 I'm also interested in seeing RM median scores-I assume the median is of accepted students.

Not sure what median scores for RM were but the median percentile scores for language section for accepted students was 90 and median percentile score for math was 90. Plus 82% accepted had GPA of 4.0.

DD scored 93% percentile, math percentile 87%, didn't get in.