Holton vs RMIB

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Holton does not compare to MCPS college acceptances

Are you sure about that?
https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1633019261/holtonarms/yewb2qd4aq6pmkk2bofr/schoolprofilesy2022_updated.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Holton. Not sure why this is a question.

OMG no.

Op look at the curriculums they are not even close.

Holton does not compare to MCPS college acceptances, math, science etc...

Holton is a fine school but it is not at the same caliber of RMIB

If you want your child to be a grind for 4 years RMIB.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Holton. Not sure why this is a question.

OMG no.

Op look at the curriculums they are not even close.

Holton does not compare to MCPS college acceptances, math, science etc...

Holton is a fine school but it is not at the same caliber of RMIB

If you want your child to be a grind for 4 years RMIB.

Seriously, that's a fair and good discussion to have. Don't put your child in IB if kid can't handle stress. But saying Holton can provide same rigor/results without paying the price (stress) is just another crazy talk.

[Anonymous]

You're seriously claiming that Holton doesn't have the results? Between 2018 and 2021, they had 55 matriculations at Amherst, Barnard, Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, Swarthmore, UChicago, UPenn, and Yale.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You're seriously claiming that Holton doesn't have the results? Between 2018 and 2021, they had 55 matriculations at Amherst, Barnard, Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, Swarthmore, UChicago, UPenn, and Yale.

Not going to start a pissing match over this. I am sure OP can make her own decision.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You're seriously claiming that Holton doesn't have the results? Between 2018 and 2021, they had 55 matriculations at Amherst, Barnard, Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, Swarthmore, UChicago, UPenn, and Yale.

DP.. hard to really compare. How much of that is legacy. Same for RMIB, I suppose.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Holton. Not sure why this is a question.

OMG no.

Op look at the curriculums they are not even close.

Holton does not compare to MCPS college acceptances, math, science etc...

Holton is a fine school but it is not at the same caliber of RMIB

If you want your child to be a grind for 4 years RMIB.

Seriously, that's a fair and good discussion to have. Don't put your child in IB if kid can't handle stress. But saying Holton can provide same rigor/results without paying the price (stress) is just another crazy talk.

+1 some of the grind is really self inflicted, though. Lots of kids have a hard time with time management and wasting time instead of doing HW. This is why RMIB is also great for preparing students for college where there is no one there to hold your hand through the grind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All of the comments about RMIB above are wrong. I can’t comment on Holton because my kid didn’t attend both.

What a nonsense throw-away comment if you have nothing to offer to support it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Holton. Not sure why this is a question.

OMG no.

Op look at the curriculums they are not even close.

Holton does not compare to MCPS college acceptances, math, science etc...

Holton is a fine school but it is not at the same caliber of RMIB

If you want your child to be a grind for 4 years RMIB.

Seriously, that's a fair and good discussion to have. Don't put your child in IB if kid can't handle stress. But saying Holton can provide same rigor/results without paying the price (stress) is just another crazy talk.

+1 some of the grind is really self inflicted, though. Lots of kids have a hard time with time management and wasting time instead of doing HW. This is why RMIB is also great for preparing students for college where there is no one there to hold your hand through the grind.

Yes, very true re. self-inflicted comment. Good way to learn time management skills before college. For our kids, their support system was their friends in the program.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've seen so many threads on DCUM over the years describing Holton as an academic pressure cooker on par with NCS, and now all of a sudden their students (who average 1400 SAT and 31.6 ACT) can't handle the IB program?

DP but pressure cooker is not the same thing as rigorous.
RMIB is rigorous but it's not a pressure cooker environment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You're seriously claiming that Holton doesn't have the results? Between 2018 and 2021, they had 55 matriculations at Amherst, Barnard, Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, Swarthmore, UChicago, UPenn, and Yale.

Not going to start a pissing match over this. I am sure OP can make her own decision.

You already started a pissing match by making unsubstantiated claims about Holton, even though its testing/college admissions track record is easy for anyone to Google in under a minute.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You're seriously claiming that Holton doesn't have the results? Between 2018 and 2021, they had 55 matriculations at Amherst, Barnard, Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, Swarthmore, UChicago, UPenn, and Yale.

Not going to start a pissing match over this. I am sure OP can make her own decision.

You already started a pissing match by making unsubstantiated claims about Holton, even though its testing/college admissions track record is easy for anyone to Google in under a minute.

you really want to go there? 55 matriculations over 4 years? that's like only 13/14 per year?

[Anonymous]

It's not hard for you to do the math and figure out what percentage of Holton's graduating class that is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You're seriously claiming that Holton doesn't have the results? Between 2018 and 2021, they had 55 matriculations at Amherst, Barnard, Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, Swarthmore, UChicago, UPenn, and Yale.

Not going to start a pissing match over this. I am sure OP can make her own decision.

You already started a pissing match by making unsubstantiated claims about Holton, even though its testing/college admissions track record is easy for anyone to Google in under a minute.

you really want to go there? 55 matriculations over 4 years? that's like only 13/14 per year?

What? They did not teach you how to do percentages at your public school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You're seriously claiming that Holton doesn't have the results? Between 2018 and 2021, they had 55 matriculations at Amherst, Barnard, Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, Swarthmore, UChicago, UPenn, and Yale.

Not going to start a pissing match over this. I am sure OP can make her own decision.

You already started a pissing match by making unsubstantiated claims about Holton, even though its testing/college admissions track record is easy for anyone to Google in under a minute.

you really want to go there? 55 matriculations over 4 years? that's like only 13/14 per year?

I have no horse in this race, but this anti-Holton poster sounds like a fool. This list is impressive. I'm sure RMIB has an impressive list as well. They both sound like great options, OP. The price tag sure seems significantly different, though!