Can a rising senior get into a magnet program

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At Blair, I think any student can take magnet electives as long as they meet the prerequisites and there is room in the class, they do not have to be in the program. You should probably verify this with the school, because my kids graduated a few years ago, but that was the policy at that time.

But thets pretty hard logistically, right?

Magnet does accelerated Bio/Chem/Phys and Math all in 9th to get the students ready for the electives.

[Anonymous]

Not really.

Plenty of kids from outside the magnet who take the electives. The semester magnet physics class is roughly equal to a year of regular physics so a student outside the magnet who did regular physics would be fine in advanced physics. They might have some content they missed because the magnet physics probably goes above and beyond but if a non-magnet kid is interested enough to want to take the advanced electives I would think they'd have no problem catching up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I do know an out of bounds RMIB kid who transferred for senior year into the IB program. I don't know for a fact but heard they came from overseas.

Kids drop out along the way so I would think by grade 12 there are slots.

It’s not about “slots”. The courses in the diploma program are two year courses. Students transferring in to RM in 12th have to have taken the 1st half of core courses in 11th grade in a diploma program somewhere else.