Are the Blair and RMIB magnet programs even any good?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They are terrible. Don't bother applying. RM is definitely in ganglandia with million dollar homes in the cluster.

/s

Blair is worse. My daughter died twice last week!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My guess is that PP used (or school used) school wide SAT scores. My kids got 780/800 range and all of their friends got upper 700s too.

There was a huge thread on this last year. It is mathematically impossible for those numbers to be all for RMIB. There aren't enough students to cancel out the scores of the National Merit Commended students and end up with a mean in the 1200s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My guess is that PP used (or school used) school wide SAT scores. My kids got 780/800 range and all of their friends got upper 700s too.

There was a huge thread on this last year. It is mathematically impossible for those numbers to be all for RMIB. There aren't enough students to cancel out the scores of the National Merit Commended students and end up with a mean in the 1200s.

I can attest to at least one non IB kid at RM getting 1440+

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My guess is that PP used (or school used) school wide SAT scores. My kids got 780/800 range and all of their friends got upper 700s too.

There was a huge thread on this last year. It is mathematically impossible for those numbers to be all for RMIB. There aren't enough students to cancel out the scores of the National Merit Commended students and end up with a mean in the 1200s.

I can attest to at least one non IB kid at RM getting 1440+

And I'm sure there were more.

But there's no way that 100 kids mostly picked for having 99%ile scores in 8th grade ended up with an average of 85%ile scores 4 years later

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My guess is that PP used (or school used) school wide SAT scores. My kids got 780/800 range and all of their friends got upper 700s too.

There was a huge thread on this last year. It is mathematically impossible for those numbers to be all for RMIB. There aren't enough students to cancel out the scores of the National Merit Commended students and end up with a mean in the 1200s.

I can attest to at least one non IB kid at RM getting 1440+

And I'm sure there were more.

But there's no way that 100 kids mostly picked for having 99%ile scores in 8th grade ended up with an average of 85%ile scores 4 years later

PP here. Indeed.

My kid who is not in IB got a higher score than some of their friends in IB.

My other kid who was in IB, got a 1580.

[Anonymous]

I get disproportionate number of interns from these programs where I work (STEM related). They are extremely talented.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I get disproportionate number of interns from these programs where I work (STEM related). They are extremely talented.

I only hire my HS interns (more than 20) from Blair and TJ. They are all extremely talented and strong self-driven. I’ll not hire any more in the future from Blair once the regional model starts.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I get disproportionate number of interns from these programs where I work (STEM related). They are extremely talented.

I only hire my HS interns (more than 20) from Blair and TJ. They are all extremely talented and strong self-driven. I’ll not hire any more in the future from Blair once the regional model starts.

Well that's pretty obnoxious. You won't even consider a student who might be a good fit? What about now -- you won't consider a student who goes to their home school and takes a heavy load of AP STEM courses? That says a lot about you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I get disproportionate number of interns from these programs where I work (STEM related). They are extremely talented.

I only hire my HS interns (more than 20) from Blair and TJ. They are all extremely talented and strong self-driven. I’ll not hire any more in the future from Blair once the regional model starts.

Well that's pretty obnoxious. You won't even consider a student who might be a good fit? What about now -- you won't consider a student who goes to their home school and takes a heavy load of AP STEM courses? That says a lot about you.

If you have ever supervised a HS intern, you’ll know it’s a service rather than a normal working relationship. You pay them but they don’t know a tiny bit about your research, but your time is also very limited. You won’t have time to teach them from scratch or meet them on a daily basis. What you can do is handing them a bunch of references, sample codes, lab materials, and expert them to start training themselves like a graduate student. That’s way way beyond a straight-A transcript with a bunch of AP courses. The reason I trust Blair and TJ is I know kids can survive there with a good resume can learn whatever they are requested to learn with minimal instruction.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I get disproportionate number of interns from these programs where I work (STEM related). They are extremely talented.

I only hire my HS interns (more than 20) from Blair and TJ. They are all extremely talented and strong self-driven. I’ll not hire any more in the future from Blair once the regional model starts.

Well that's pretty obnoxious. You won't even consider a student who might be a good fit? What about now -- you won't consider a student who goes to their home school and takes a heavy load of AP STEM courses? That says a lot about you.

If you have ever supervised a HS intern, you’ll know it’s a service rather than a normal working relationship. You pay them but they don’t know a tiny bit about your research, but your time is also very limited. You won’t have time to teach them from scratch or meet them on a daily basis. What you can do is handing them a bunch of references, sample codes, lab materials, and expert them to start training themselves like a graduate student. That’s way way beyond a straight-A transcript with a bunch of AP courses. The reason I trust Blair and TJ is I know kids can survive there with a good resume can learn whatever they are requested to learn with minimal instruction.

That's pretty terrible when not all smart kids have the same opportunities at their schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I get disproportionate number of interns from these programs where I work (STEM related). They are extremely talented.

I only hire my HS interns (more than 20) from Blair and TJ. They are all extremely talented and strong self-driven. I’ll not hire any more in the future from Blair once the regional model starts.

Well that's pretty obnoxious. You won't even consider a student who might be a good fit? What about now -- you won't consider a student who goes to their home school and takes a heavy load of AP STEM courses? That says a lot about you.

If you have ever supervised a HS intern, you’ll know it’s a service rather than a normal working relationship. You pay them but they don’t know a tiny bit about your research, but your time is also very limited. You won’t have time to teach them from scratch or meet them on a daily basis. What you can do is handing them a bunch of references, sample codes, lab materials, and expert them to start training themselves like a graduate student. That’s way way beyond a straight-A transcript with a bunch of AP courses. The reason I trust Blair and TJ is I know kids can survive there with a good resume can learn whatever they are requested to learn with minimal instruction.

That's pretty terrible when not all smart kids have the same opportunities at their schools.

Well, think about this scenario. You have a supplier who had supplied you the best quality parts for the past two decades. Now they tell you they had replicated their production line 6X with barely any cost increment, you will think twice if you still want to buy their products, or even if you want, you don't know which production line to use, right? It's the same situation here. MIT accepted so many Blair SMCS students every year not simply because they all have stellar resume (of course they do). For a district that GPA is so diluted, how do MIT decide to accept this student with 4.0 UWGPA and not that student with 4.0 UWGPA? Then think about college internship. For facebook for example, their internship application has a pull-down menu to indicate which college you are from. The options only have 4 or so colleges that are famous with their CS programs, and the 5th option is "others". You see the difference? That's the so-called feeder school. Now MCPS is tearing down the feeder programs, and it's the smart and hard-working students who are biting the consequences.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I get disproportionate number of interns from these programs where I work (STEM related). They are extremely talented.

I only hire my HS interns (more than 20) from Blair and TJ. They are all extremely talented and strong self-driven. I’ll not hire any more in the future from Blair once the regional model starts.

Well that's pretty obnoxious. You won't even consider a student who might be a good fit? What about now -- you won't consider a student who goes to their home school and takes a heavy load of AP STEM courses? That says a lot about you.

No, PP is just being honest. The Blair program will diminish. Thomas Taylor is a disaster for this county.

[Anonymous]

Here are this years numbers for RMIB I think they look really promising I’m not sure why we’re citing data from 2023 in here

The Mean SAT scores for the RMIB Class of 2025: 1468
• Evidence Based Reading and Writing: 740 Mathematics 738 Total - 1468
• National Merit Scholarship Competition Finalists - Class of 2025 - 23

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/contentassets/85ddf5c7e43e4729af561245c7f8fce8/5482_26_rmhs-profile-insert.pdf?usp=sharing

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I get disproportionate number of interns from these programs where I work (STEM related). They are extremely talented.

I only hire my HS interns (more than 20) from Blair and TJ. They are all extremely talented and strong self-driven. I’ll not hire any more in the future from Blair once the regional model starts.

Well that's pretty obnoxious. You won't even consider a student who might be a good fit? What about now -- you won't consider a student who goes to their home school and takes a heavy load of AP STEM courses? That says a lot about you.

No, PP is just being honest. The Blair program will diminish. Thomas Taylor is a disaster for this county.

Taylor has taken away multiple important programs; this one is no different... you laughed when others had their programs removed, not thinking this would happen. Of course it would... oh well....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here are this years numbers for RMIB I think they look really promising I’m not sure why we’re citing data from 2023 in here

The Mean SAT scores for the RMIB Class of 2025: 1468
• Evidence Based Reading and Writing: 740 Mathematics 738 Total - 1468
• National Merit Scholarship Competition Finalists - Class of 2025 - 23

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/contentassets/85ddf5c7e43e4729af561245c7f8fce8/5482_26_rmhs-profile-insert.pdf?usp=sharing

This makes me question the math skills these kids have. Or at least their parents.