blair magnet quesiton

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Anonymous wrote:I know of at least 2 magnet kids with high gpa’s/test scores, at least one is a National Merit Semi, and rejected from UMD this year. Anyone who thinks UMD is a slam dunk (especially for STEM) is delusional.

Then honestly, what do they need to do? My kid (8th grade) is going to the magnet next year. I don't want her to have a nervous breakdown because it's that difficult to even get into UMD.

I literally don't get it. They are already taking a very difficult course load. I have heard don't even bother releasing your Sat scores until it's > 1500. Everyone gets straight A's, or else. We don't have the money for private.

Honestly this whole thread is just making me depressed. My kid is smart but she's not going to win any national awards.

She need to not go to UMD. They only admit a few kids from Blair, so it’s super tough because you are competing against other magnet kids. If she applies to any other school, she will do fine.

Thi is completely wrong. UMD admits over 100 kids from Blair every year

But there are 750 students and 200 from
magnet. The non-magnet class also gets UMD offers. I assume majority of magnet students would apply for UMD, even as a safety school. That would mean many magnet students get rejected.

Last year UMD CP accepted 157 of 367 Blair applicants, and 71 enrolled.

Many magnet kids don't bother applying to UMD as a safety, because they have ED1, or rich parents (as most magnet parents are rich) happy to pay for our of state schools.

https://moco360.media/2023/09/13/where-montgomery-county-high-school-graduates-are-going-to-college/

About 40% of magnet grads have gone to UMD in recent years because their families are working class/MD and do not have the money to send them to more expensive private colleges. Most magnet parents aren't rich. What a ridiculous thing to say.

40% not rich means most are rich. Potomac and Bethesda dominate magnet attendance.

Not DC's experience. Most of the kids are from DCC with a noticeable group from Potomac, many fewer from Bethesda. I think once they got rid of teacher recs and made the application process easier they got a more diverse group of applicants in many dimensions including geography.

The manget directory suggests this notion that the magnet is mostly W kids is a myth. The largest feeder is actually Blair itself. That was also the case at TPMS.

It is a myth created by the W parents. A few years ago, MCPS distributed a report showing how many students each HS lost/sent to the magnets. The W didn't lose that many to the magnets, with Wootton having lost the most and Whitman the least. If I remember correctly, Whitman only lost 8 students to the magnets.

There is only 100 slots. 8 from a single school is a lot.

I see reading comprehension is not your forte. I said magnets, with a "s". It included all the magnets i.e SMCS, RMIB, CAP etc...

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Anonymous wrote:I know of at least 2 magnet kids with high gpa’s/test scores, at least one is a National Merit Semi, and rejected from UMD this year. Anyone who thinks UMD is a slam dunk (especially for STEM) is delusional.

Then honestly, what do they need to do? My kid (8th grade) is going to the magnet next year. I don't want her to have a nervous breakdown because it's that difficult to even get into UMD.

I literally don't get it. They are already taking a very difficult course load. I have heard don't even bother releasing your Sat scores until it's > 1500. Everyone gets straight A's, or else. We don't have the money for private.

Honestly this whole thread is just making me depressed. My kid is smart but she's not going to win any national awards.

She need to not go to UMD. They only admit a few kids from Blair, so it’s super tough because you are competing against other magnet kids. If she applies to any other school, she will do fine.

Thi is completely wrong. UMD admits over 100 kids from Blair every year

But there are 750 students and 200 from
magnet. The non-magnet class also gets UMD offers. I assume majority of magnet students would apply for UMD, even as a safety school. That would mean many magnet students get rejected.

Last year UMD CP accepted 157 of 367 Blair applicants, and 71 enrolled.

Many magnet kids don't bother applying to UMD as a safety, because they have ED1, or rich parents (as most magnet parents are rich) happy to pay for our of state schools.

https://moco360.media/2023/09/13/where-montgomery-county-high-school-graduates-are-going-to-college/

About 40% of magnet grads have gone to UMD in recent years because their families are working class/MD and do not have the money to send them to more expensive private colleges. Most magnet parents aren't rich. What a ridiculous thing to say.

40% not rich means most are rich. Potomac and Bethesda dominate magnet attendance.

Not DC's experience. Most of the kids are from DCC with a noticeable group from Potomac, many fewer from Bethesda. I think once they got rid of teacher recs and made the application process easier they got a more diverse group of applicants in many dimensions including geography.

The manget directory suggests this notion that the magnet is mostly W kids is a myth. The largest feeder is actually Blair itself. That was also the case at TPMS.

In our year, in tefmas of towns (not home HS), I think Rockville had the most. TP, Bethesda, Potomac had a lot. Also Silver Spring. Not all the upcounty families were wealthy. Some sacrificed beyond financial comfort for the W catchment. But, I would still call most of them UMC to UMC+. The Bethesda families seemed to be the best off financially. We (TP/SS) are middle class and definitely considered UMD for cost reasons and quality, but kid got excellent financial aid at T15. So, while I agree most aren't rich, if kids aren't getting need aid at T20, I wouldn't call them middle class, definitely not working class.

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My Blair Magnet kid has to decide between UMD with significant merit aud (covered almost all tuition) and Cornell with no aid. UMD made the most sense in terms of value. An example if why you can't rate the magnet on college choice.

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Anonymous wrote:My Blair Magnet kid has to decide between UMD with significant merit aud (covered almost all tuition) and Cornell with no aid. UMD made the most sense in terms of value. An example if why you can't rate the magnet on college choice.

I guess it might depend on what they plan to study. For example, on csrankings.org UMD is 11th whereas Cornell is 10th or 12th so not all that different.

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Anonymous wrote:I know of at least 2 magnet kids with high gpa’s/test scores, at least one is a National Merit Semi, and rejected from UMD this year. Anyone who thinks UMD is a slam dunk (especially for STEM) is delusional.

Then honestly, what do they need to do? My kid (8th grade) is going to the magnet next year. I don't want her to have a nervous breakdown because it's that difficult to even get into UMD.

I literally don't get it. They are already taking a very difficult course load. I have heard don't even bother releasing your Sat scores until it's > 1500. Everyone gets straight A's, or else. We don't have the money for private.

Honestly this whole thread is just making me depressed. My kid is smart but she's not going to win any national awards.

She need to not go to UMD. They only admit a few kids from Blair, so it’s super tough because you are competing against other magnet kids. If she applies to any other school, she will do fine.

Thi is completely wrong. UMD admits over 100 kids from Blair every year

But there are 750 students and 200 from
magnet. The non-magnet class also gets UMD offers. I assume majority of magnet students would apply for UMD, even as a safety school. That would mean many magnet students get rejected.

Last year UMD CP accepted 157 of 367 Blair applicants, and 71 enrolled.

Many magnet kids don't bother applying to UMD as a safety, because they have ED1, or rich parents (as most magnet parents are rich) happy to pay for our of state schools.

https://moco360.media/2023/09/13/where-montgomery-county-high-school-graduates-are-going-to-college/

About 40% of magnet grads have gone to UMD in recent years because their families are working class/MD and do not have the money to send them to more expensive private colleges. Most magnet parents aren't rich. What a ridiculous thing to say.

40% not rich means most are rich. Potomac and Bethesda dominate magnet attendance.

Not DC's experience. Most of the kids are from DCC with a noticeable group from Potomac, many fewer from Bethesda. I think once they got rid of teacher recs and made the application process easier they got a more diverse group of applicants in many dimensions including geography.

The manget directory suggests this notion that the magnet is mostly W kids is a myth. The largest feeder is actually Blair itself. That was also the case at TPMS.

It is a myth created by the W parents. A few years ago, MCPS distributed a report showing how many students each HS lost/sent to the magnets. The W didn't lose that many to the magnets, with Wootton having lost the most and Whitman the least. If I remember correctly, Whitman only lost 8 students to the magnets.

There is only 100 slots. 8 from a single school is a lot.

I see reading comprehension is not your forte. I said magnets, with a "s". It included all the magnets i.e SMCS, RMIB, CAP etc...

It's funny DC is an in-boundary 8th grader at TPMS, and there are around 8 neighborhood kids going to SMCS next year.

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Anonymous wrote:I know of at least 2 magnet kids with high gpa’s/test scores, at least one is a National Merit Semi, and rejected from UMD this year. Anyone who thinks UMD is a slam dunk (especially for STEM) is delusional.

Then honestly, what do they need to do? My kid (8th grade) is going to the magnet next year. I don't want her to have a nervous breakdown because it's that difficult to even get into UMD.

I literally don't get it. They are already taking a very difficult course load. I have heard don't even bother releasing your Sat scores until it's > 1500. Everyone gets straight A's, or else. We don't have the money for private.

Honestly this whole thread is just making me depressed. My kid is smart but she's not going to win any national awards.

She need to not go to UMD. They only admit a few kids from Blair, so it’s super tough because you are competing against other magnet kids. If she applies to any other school, she will do fine.

Thi is completely wrong. UMD admits over 100 kids from Blair every year

Way more than 100 admitted over 100 attend.

Moco360 shows 367 from MBHS were admitted to UMDCP in 2023

Read carefully again

367 applied, 157 admitted, 71 enrolled

That's amazing! My FCPS HS which had over 2k students and was ranked top 5 HS in VA only sent maybe 6 or 7 kids to UVA.

UVA is way more competitive than UMD. Perhaps the percentage of students admitted to UVA+VT would be comparable to here with UMD

True, but for almost anything useful, UMDCP is a stronger school like CS, engineering, math, economics, or physics. UMD is much better at all of those fields and its business schools seems even comparable to McIntire these days. Sure, UVA is stronger at things like Art History or French Lit but who cares.

+100. True. I honestly don't understand UVA's rep, except if you are sure you want to eventually do law/medicine/mba. VA Tech on the other hand is as good as UMDCP in all of the above.

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Anonymous wrote:I know of at least 2 magnet kids with high gpa’s/test scores, at least one is a National Merit Semi, and rejected from UMD this year. Anyone who thinks UMD is a slam dunk (especially for STEM) is delusional.

Then honestly, what do they need to do? My kid (8th grade) is going to the magnet next year. I don't want her to have a nervous breakdown because it's that difficult to even get into UMD.

I literally don't get it. They are already taking a very difficult course load. I have heard don't even bother releasing your Sat scores until it's > 1500. Everyone gets straight A's, or else. We don't have the money for private.

Honestly this whole thread is just making me depressed. My kid is smart but she's not going to win any national awards.

She need to not go to UMD. They only admit a few kids from Blair, so it’s super tough because you are competing against other magnet kids. If she applies to any other school, she will do fine.

Thi is completely wrong. UMD admits over 100 kids from Blair every year

But there are 750 students and 200 from
magnet. The non-magnet class also gets UMD offers. I assume majority of magnet students would apply for UMD, even as a safety school. That would mean many magnet students get rejected.

Last year UMD CP accepted 157 of 367 Blair applicants, and 71 enrolled.

Many magnet kids don't bother applying to UMD as a safety, because they have ED1, or rich parents (as most magnet parents are rich) happy to pay for our of state schools.

https://moco360.media/2023/09/13/where-montgomery-county-high-school-graduates-are-going-to-college/

About 40% of magnet grads have gone to UMD in recent years because their families are working class/MD and do not have the money to send them to more expensive private colleges. Most magnet parents aren't rich. What a ridiculous thing to say.

40% not rich means most are rich. Potomac and Bethesda dominate magnet attendance.

Not DC's experience. Most of the kids are from DCC with a noticeable group from Potomac, many fewer from Bethesda. I think once they got rid of teacher recs and made the application process easier they got a more diverse group of applicants in many dimensions including geography.

Potomac/Bethesda kids are more noticeable because they win the majority of academic awards won by magnet students.

Like this student https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/press/index.aspx?pagetype=showrelease&id=10585

Where is the data to support your anecdote?

Do you have any data to weigh against the data already provided in this thread?

There is no consolidated statistical demographic report.
Look up online academic awards of various kinds that Blair students have one, and check the hometown of named students. Try it, and see how unbalanced the results are.

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Anonymous wrote:My Blair Magnet kid has to decide between UMD with significant merit aud (covered almost all tuition) and Cornell with no aid. UMD made the most sense in terms of value. An example if why you can't rate the magnet on college choice.

I guess it might depend on what they plan to study. For example, on csrankings.org UMD is 11th whereas Cornell is 10th or 12th so not all that different.

Same. Old data but decades ago I got the Banneker Key Scholarship vs acceptances at Penn, Cornell, Carnegie Mellon with very limited financial aid. I chose UMD obviously. Our family income was 85k and they expected my parents to shell out 22k, with 2 other younger kids still at home. I don't understand how these private colleges think that is reasonable. "Diversity" is not just about skin color and gender identity. (And I say this as a POC).

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Anonymous wrote:I know of at least 2 magnet kids with high gpa’s/test scores, at least one is a National Merit Semi, and rejected from UMD this year. Anyone who thinks UMD is a slam dunk (especially for STEM) is delusional.

Then honestly, what do they need to do? My kid (8th grade) is going to the magnet next year. I don't want her to have a nervous breakdown because it's that difficult to even get into UMD.

I literally don't get it. They are already taking a very difficult course load. I have heard don't even bother releasing your Sat scores until it's > 1500. Everyone gets straight A's, or else. We don't have the money for private.

Honestly this whole thread is just making me depressed. My kid is smart but she's not going to win any national awards.

She need to not go to UMD. They only admit a few kids from Blair, so it’s super tough because you are competing against other magnet kids. If she applies to any other school, she will do fine.

Thi is completely wrong. UMD admits over 100 kids from Blair every year

Way more than 100 admitted over 100 attend.

Moco360 shows 367 from MBHS were admitted to UMDCP in 2023

Read carefully again

367 applied, 157 admitted, 71 enrolled

That's amazing! My FCPS HS which had over 2k students and was ranked top 5 HS in VA only sent maybe 6 or 7 kids to UVA.

UVA is way more competitive than UMD. Perhaps the percentage of students admitted to UVA+VT would be comparable to here with UMD

True, but for almost anything useful, UMDCP is a stronger school like CS, engineering, math, economics, or physics. UMD is much better at all of those fields and its business schools seems even comparable to McIntire these days. Sure, UVA is stronger at things like Art History or French Lit but who cares.

+100. True. I honestly don't understand UVA's rep, except if you are sure you want to eventually do law/medicine/mba. VA Tech on the other hand is as good as UMDCP in all of the above.

I have to disagree. Tech is a good choice for engineering in VA but is below UMDCP for that and far below UVA for everything else.

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Anonymous wrote:I know of at least 2 magnet kids with high gpa’s/test scores, at least one is a National Merit Semi, and rejected from UMD this year. Anyone who thinks UMD is a slam dunk (especially for STEM) is delusional.

Then honestly, what do they need to do? My kid (8th grade) is going to the magnet next year. I don't want her to have a nervous breakdown because it's that difficult to even get into UMD.

I literally don't get it. They are already taking a very difficult course load. I have heard don't even bother releasing your Sat scores until it's > 1500. Everyone gets straight A's, or else. We don't have the money for private.

Honestly this whole thread is just making me depressed. My kid is smart but she's not going to win any national awards.

She need to not go to UMD. They only admit a few kids from Blair, so it’s super tough because you are competing against other magnet kids. If she applies to any other school, she will do fine.

Thi is completely wrong. UMD admits over 100 kids from Blair every year

Way more than 100 admitted over 100 attend.

Moco360 shows 367 from MBHS were admitted to UMDCP in 2023

Read carefully again

367 applied, 157 admitted, 71 enrolled

That's amazing! My FCPS HS which had over 2k students and was ranked top 5 HS in VA only sent maybe 6 or 7 kids to UVA.

UVA is way more competitive than UMD. Perhaps the percentage of students admitted to UVA+VT would be comparable to here with UMD

True, but for almost anything useful, UMDCP is a stronger school like CS, engineering, math, economics, or physics. UMD is much better at all of those fields and its business schools seems even comparable to McIntire these days. Sure, UVA is stronger at things like Art History or French Lit but who cares.

+100. True. I honestly don't understand UVA's rep, except if you are sure you want to eventually do law/medicine/mba. VA Tech on the other hand is as good as UMDCP in all of the above.

I have to disagree. Tech is a good choice for engineering in VA but is below UMDCP for that and far below UVA for everything else.

One thing tech excels at is the student culinary services. Their food is the best.

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Anonymous wrote:I know of at least 2 magnet kids with high gpa’s/test scores, at least one is a National Merit Semi, and rejected from UMD this year. Anyone who thinks UMD is a slam dunk (especially for STEM) is delusional.

Then honestly, what do they need to do? My kid (8th grade) is going to the magnet next year. I don't want her to have a nervous breakdown because it's that difficult to even get into UMD.

I literally don't get it. They are already taking a very difficult course load. I have heard don't even bother releasing your Sat scores until it's > 1500. Everyone gets straight A's, or else. We don't have the money for private.

Honestly this whole thread is just making me depressed. My kid is smart but she's not going to win any national awards.

She need to not go to UMD. They only admit a few kids from Blair, so it’s super tough because you are competing against other magnet kids. If she applies to any other school, she will do fine.

Thi is completely wrong. UMD admits over 100 kids from Blair every year

Way more than 100 admitted over 100 attend.

Moco360 shows 367 from MBHS were admitted to UMDCP in 2023

Read carefully again

367 applied, 157 admitted, 71 enrolled

That's amazing! My FCPS HS which had over 2k students and was ranked top 5 HS in VA only sent maybe 6 or 7 kids to UVA.

UVA is way more competitive than UMD. Perhaps the percentage of students admitted to UVA+VT would be comparable to here with UMD

True, but for almost anything useful, UMDCP is a stronger school like CS, engineering, math, economics, or physics. UMD is much better at all of those fields and its business schools seems even comparable to McIntire these days. Sure, UVA is stronger at things like Art History or French Lit but who cares.

+100. True. I honestly don't understand UVA's rep, except if you are sure you want to eventually do law/medicine/mba. VA Tech on the other hand is as good as UMDCP in all of the above.

I have to disagree. Tech is a good choice for engineering in VA but is below UMDCP for that and far below UVA for everything else.

UVA does not admit as many students as UMD though, and VA has more students than MD. So it’s actually better to live in MD than VA if the goal is the in state flagship university.

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Anonymous wrote:I know of at least 2 magnet kids with high gpa’s/test scores, at least one is a National Merit Semi, and rejected from UMD this year. Anyone who thinks UMD is a slam dunk (especially for STEM) is delusional.

Then honestly, what do they need to do? My kid (8th grade) is going to the magnet next year. I don't want her to have a nervous breakdown because it's that difficult to even get into UMD.

I literally don't get it. They are already taking a very difficult course load. I have heard don't even bother releasing your Sat scores until it's > 1500. Everyone gets straight A's, or else. We don't have the money for private.

Honestly this whole thread is just making me depressed. My kid is smart but she's not going to win any national awards.

She need to not go to UMD. They only admit a few kids from Blair, so it’s super tough because you are competing against other magnet kids. If she applies to any other school, she will do fine.

Thi is completely wrong. UMD admits over 100 kids from Blair every year

Way more than 100 admitted over 100 attend.

Moco360 shows 367 from MBHS were admitted to UMDCP in 2023

Read carefully again

367 applied, 157 admitted, 71 enrolled

That's amazing! My FCPS HS which had over 2k students and was ranked top 5 HS in VA only sent maybe 6 or 7 kids to UVA.

UVA is way more competitive than UMD. Perhaps the percentage of students admitted to UVA+VT would be comparable to here with UMD

True, but for almost anything useful, UMDCP is a stronger school like CS, engineering, math, economics, or physics. UMD is much better at all of those fields and its business schools seems even comparable to McIntire these days. Sure, UVA is stronger at things like Art History or French Lit but who cares.

+100. True. I honestly don't understand UVA's rep, except if you are sure you want to eventually do law/medicine/mba. VA Tech on the other hand is as good as UMDCP in all of the above.

I have to disagree. Tech is a good choice for engineering in VA but is below UMDCP for that and far below UVA for everything else.

UVA does not admit as many students as UMD though, and VA has more students than MD. So it’s actually better to live in MD than VA if the goal is the in state flagship university.

I went to UVA and would prefer my children attend UMD.

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Anonymous wrote:My Blair Magnet kid has to decide between UMD with significant merit aud (covered almost all tuition) and Cornell with no aid. UMD made the most sense in terms of value. An example if why you can't rate the magnet on college choice.

I guess it might depend on what they plan to study. For example, on csrankings.org UMD is 11th whereas Cornell is 10th or 12th so not all that different.

Yes studying CS!

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Anonymous wrote:I know of at least 2 magnet kids with high gpa’s/test scores, at least one is a National Merit Semi, and rejected from UMD this year. Anyone who thinks UMD is a slam dunk (especially for STEM) is delusional.

Then honestly, what do they need to do? My kid (8th grade) is going to the magnet next year. I don't want her to have a nervous breakdown because it's that difficult to even get into UMD.

I literally don't get it. They are already taking a very difficult course load. I have heard don't even bother releasing your Sat scores until it's > 1500. Everyone gets straight A's, or else. We don't have the money for private.

Honestly this whole thread is just making me depressed. My kid is smart but she's not going to win any national awards.

She need to not go to UMD. They only admit a few kids from Blair, so it’s super tough because you are competing against other magnet kids. If she applies to any other school, she will do fine.

Thi is completely wrong. UMD admits over 100 kids from Blair every year

But there are 750 students and 200 from
magnet. The non-magnet class also gets UMD offers. I assume majority of magnet students would apply for UMD, even as a safety school. That would mean many magnet students get rejected.

Last year UMD CP accepted 157 of 367 Blair applicants, and 71 enrolled.

Many magnet kids don't bother applying to UMD as a safety, because they have ED1, or rich parents (as most magnet parents are rich) happy to pay for our of state schools.

https://moco360.media/2023/09/13/where-montgomery-county-high-school-graduates-are-going-to-college/

About 40% of magnet grads have gone to UMD in recent years because their families are working class/MD and do not have the money to send them to more expensive private colleges. Most magnet parents aren't rich. What a ridiculous thing to say.

40% not rich means most are rich. Potomac and Bethesda dominate magnet attendance.

Not DC's experience. Most of the kids are from DCC with a noticeable group from Potomac, many fewer from Bethesda. I think once they got rid of teacher recs and made the application process easier they got a more diverse group of applicants in many dimensions including geography.

The manget directory suggests this notion that the magnet is mostly W kids is a myth. The largest feeder is actually Blair itself. That was also the case at TPMS.

It is a myth created by the W parents. A few years ago, MCPS distributed a report showing how many students each HS lost/sent to the magnets. The W didn't lose that many to the magnets, with Wootton having lost the most and Whitman the least. If I remember correctly, Whitman only lost 8 students to the magnets.

There is only 100 slots. 8 from a single school is a lot.

I see reading comprehension is not your forte. I said magnets, with a "s". It included all the magnets i.e SMCS, RMIB, CAP etc...

It's funny DC is an in-boundary 8th grader at TPMS, and there are around 8 neighborhood kids going to SMCS next year.

That’s a big change then. Typically the TKPK kids go to CAP. Very few in the magnet.

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Anonymous wrote:I know of at least 2 magnet kids with high gpa’s/test scores, at least one is a National Merit Semi, and rejected from UMD this year. Anyone who thinks UMD is a slam dunk (especially for STEM) is delusional.

Then honestly, what do they need to do? My kid (8th grade) is going to the magnet next year. I don't want her to have a nervous breakdown because it's that difficult to even get into UMD.

I literally don't get it. They are already taking a very difficult course load. I have heard don't even bother releasing your Sat scores until it's > 1500. Everyone gets straight A's, or else. We don't have the money for private.

Honestly this whole thread is just making me depressed. My kid is smart but she's not going to win any national awards.

She need to not go to UMD. They only admit a few kids from Blair, so it’s super tough because you are competing against other magnet kids. If she applies to any other school, she will do fine.

Thi is completely wrong. UMD admits over 100 kids from Blair every year

But there are 750 students and 200 from
magnet. The non-magnet class also gets UMD offers. I assume majority of magnet students would apply for UMD, even as a safety school. That would mean many magnet students get rejected.

Last year UMD CP accepted 157 of 367 Blair applicants, and 71 enrolled.

Many magnet kids don't bother applying to UMD as a safety, because they have ED1, or rich parents (as most magnet parents are rich) happy to pay for our of state schools.

https://moco360.media/2023/09/13/where-montgomery-county-high-school-graduates-are-going-to-college/

About 40% of magnet grads have gone to UMD in recent years because their families are working class/MD and do not have the money to send them to more expensive private colleges. Most magnet parents aren't rich. What a ridiculous thing to say.

40% not rich means most are rich. Potomac and Bethesda dominate magnet attendance.

Not DC's experience. Most of the kids are from DCC with a noticeable group from Potomac, many fewer from Bethesda. I think once they got rid of teacher recs and made the application process easier they got a more diverse group of applicants in many dimensions including geography.

Potomac/Bethesda kids are more noticeable because they win the majority of academic awards won by magnet students.

Like this student https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/press/index.aspx?pagetype=showrelease&id=10585

Where is the data to support your anecdote?

Do you have any data to weigh against the data already provided in this thread?

There is no consolidated statistical demographic report.
Look up online academic awards of various kinds that Blair students have one, and check the hometown of named students. Try it, and see how unbalanced the results are.

Yawn. That’s borderline stalking and totally ridiculous. No I’m not going to do that.