Magnet college acceptances this year

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And each year, yes, there are Stanford, MIT, etc.. but the majority of the kids go to UMD because that’s A)where the money is and B)there is a lot of rejection.

I think you might be surprised how many magnet students choose UMD over acceptances to Ivy leagues. I did that, years ago, and a large number of my friends did too.
Magnet students, by and large, aren't uber wealthy. Their parents tend to be upper middle class, but often first generation immigrant. Few have generational wealth.
In retrospect, I kind of wish I hadn't even bothered applying to those Ivys. It's pretty depressing to get *in* and then see how much aid they (don't) give you, and how many loans you have to take to get there....that just didn't go over well in my uber practical family.
And for the most part, I agree (now). An engineer from Yale isn't necessarily going to make much more than an engineer from UMD.

+1

My DC and many of his magnet friends didn't even apply to elite schools despite having the stats for admissions consideration, simply because of the cost. $85+/year and rising times multiple children = not an option.

DCUM doesn't seem to get that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And each year, yes, there are Stanford, MIT, etc.. but the majority of the kids go to UMD because that’s A)where the money is and B)there is a lot of rejection.

I think you might be surprised how many magnet students choose UMD over acceptances to Ivy leagues. I did that, years ago, and a large number of my friends did too.
Magnet students, by and large, aren't uber wealthy. Their parents tend to be upper middle class, but often first generation immigrant. Few have generational wealth.
In retrospect, I kind of wish I hadn't even bothered applying to those Ivys. It's pretty depressing to get *in* and then see how much aid they (don't) give you, and how many loans you have to take to get there....that just didn't go over well in my uber practical family.
And for the most part, I agree (now). An engineer from Yale isn't necessarily going to make much more than an engineer from UMD.

There's a huge difference in cost >$250k so just not worth it for a lot of people.

It's far more than $250K. Most of the highly selective colleges cost over $80K/year. You're talking closer to $350K for four years by the time you account for price increases.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wish MCPS would go full transparency. That will shut up "Blair/RM are just as good without the magnets" posters. I can understand, however, why MCPS will never do that.

This is such a weird thing to be passionate about…is this an issue that permeates your day to day life or something?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wish MCPS would go full transparency. That will shut up "Blair/RM are just as good without the magnets" posters. I can understand, however, why MCPS will never do that.

This is such a weird thing to be passionate about…is this an issue that permeates your day to day life or something?

Especially since the data that the county accidentally leaked a few years ago indicates the opposite. For example, the average SATs for white kids at Blair was higher than white kids at any W and the magnet is 90% Asian.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wish MCPS would go full transparency. That will shut up "Blair/RM are just as good without the magnets" posters. I can understand, however, why MCPS will never do that.

This is such a weird thing to be passionate about…is this an issue that permeates your day to day life or something?

Especially since the data that the county accidentally leaked a few years ago indicates the opposite. For example, the average SATs for white kids at Blair was higher than white kids at any W and the magnet is 90% Asian.

Why do you keep saying the magnet is 90% Asian? We are a newly accepted family and they showed the demographics on accepted kid night. It is 50-60% Asian - still a lot but not 90%.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wish MCPS would go full transparency. That will shut up "Blair/RM are just as good without the magnets" posters. I can understand, however, why MCPS will never do that.

This is such a weird thing to be passionate about…is this an issue that permeates your day to day life or something?

Especially since the data that the county accidentally leaked a few years ago indicates the opposite. For example, the average SATs for white kids at Blair was higher than white kids at any W and the magnet is 90% Asian.

The white kids didn't have the highest scores in all of MCPS - just at Blair.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do the magnets have Instagram pages where showing where kids re going to college? A lot of the schools have an instagram
page that has this info updated as kids make decisions. The Bethesda Beat publishes something in the fall but it is not separated by magnet vs non magnet.

Poolesville kids are running an Instagram page = wherethefalconsfly23
Also not separated magnet/non-magnet

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And each year, yes, there are Stanford, MIT, etc.. but the majority of the kids go to UMD because that’s A)where the money is and B)there is a lot of rejection.

This will be my kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wish MCPS would go full transparency. That will shut up "Blair/RM are just as good without the magnets" posters. I can understand, however, why MCPS will never do that.

This is such a weird thing to be passionate about…is this an issue that permeates your day to day life or something?

Seeking facts is never weird.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wish MCPS would go full transparency. That will shut up "Blair/RM are just as good without the magnets" posters. I can understand, however, why MCPS will never do that.

This is such a weird thing to be passionate about…is this an issue that permeates your day to day life or something?

Especially since the data that the county accidentally leaked a few years ago indicates the opposite. For example, the average SATs for white kids at Blair was higher than white kids at any W and the magnet is 90% Asian.

The white kids didn't have the highest scores in all of MCPS - just at Blair.

No, that demographic at Blair was the highest SAT average in all of MCPS.

Check out page 8 of the county's data.
https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/sharedaccountability/reports/2017/1771102HS%20Princ_SAT%20Partic_Perf%20Class%20of%202017.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And each year, yes, there are Stanford, MIT, etc.. but the majority of the kids go to UMD because that’s A)where the money is and B)there is a lot of rejection.

This will be my kid.

UMD has a much better ROI for some popular majors like CS. It's even a T15 program for that and most of the CS programs ranked above it are overrated IMO since they impose a lot of engineering requirements that are both painful and irrelevant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I remember at the RMIB open house the director showed a slide of all the places the last year’s seniors went to college.

Then I went to the Blair magnet open house and the director pointed out that he WOULDNT be showing such a slide, bc he said their focus is on high school, and they’re not obsessed with where kids end up- or something like that.

That really made an impression on me, and I like that Blair doesn’t make a big deal about where their kids go. Agree that many head to UMD for their CS, engineering, sciences.

Maybe because their admissions stats were not that impressive. I went to a CAP presentation years ago, and they did list the college acceptances. Not any more impressive than any other MCPS school. And my DC had friends who did CAP who didn’t even get into UMD-CP. I sure hope those kids enjoyed the program, because it didn’t help get them into college. And no, my kid wasn’t rejected. They didn’t even apply after the presentation as they didn’t see the upside. Had a great experience at a run of the mill DCCC school and got into a top 30 with considerable merit. Oh, and in at UMD too, unlike their CAP friends. Maybe the STEM magnet produces better results.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wish MCPS would go full transparency. That will shut up "Blair/RM are just as good without the magnets" posters. I can understand, however, why MCPS will never do that.

This is such a weird thing to be passionate about…is this an issue that permeates your day to day life or something?

Especially since the data that the county accidentally leaked a few years ago indicates the opposite. For example, the average SATs for white kids at Blair was higher than white kids at any W and the magnet is 90% Asian.

The white kids didn't have the highest scores in all of MCPS - just at Blair.

No, that demographic at Blair was the highest SAT average in all of MCPS.

Check out page 8 of the county's data.
https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/sharedaccountability/reports/2017/1771102HS%20Princ_SAT%20Partic_Perf%20Class%20of%202017.pdf

Thank god for magnets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I remember at the RMIB open house the director showed a slide of all the places the last year’s seniors went to college.

Then I went to the Blair magnet open house and the director pointed out that he WOULDNT be showing such a slide, bc he said their focus is on high school, and they’re not obsessed with where kids end up- or something like that.

That really made an impression on me, and I like that Blair doesn’t make a big deal about where their kids go. Agree that many head to UMD for their CS, engineering, sciences.

Maybe because their admissions stats were not that impressive. I went to a CAP presentation years ago, and they did list the college acceptances. Not any more impressive than any other MCPS school. And my DC had friends who did CAP who didn’t even get into UMD-CP. I sure hope those kids enjoyed the program, because it didn’t help get them into college. And no, my kid wasn’t rejected. They didn’t even apply after the presentation as they didn’t see the upside. Had a great experience at a run of the mill DCCC school and got into a top 30 with considerable merit. Oh, and in at UMD too, unlike their CAP friends. Maybe the STEM magnet produces better results.

No one thinks of CAP as a magnet even though it is. Even the Blair kids. When they say magnet they mean SMCS and CAP is just CAP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wish MCPS would go full transparency. That will shut up "Blair/RM are just as good without the magnets" posters. I can understand, however, why MCPS will never do that.

This is such a weird thing to be passionate about…is this an issue that permeates your day to day life or something?

Especially since the data that the county accidentally leaked a few years ago indicates the opposite. For example, the average SATs for white kids at Blair was higher than white kids at any W and the magnet is 90% Asian.

The white kids didn't have the highest scores in all of MCPS - just at Blair.

No, that demographic at Blair was the highest SAT average in all of MCPS.

Check out page 8 of the county's data.
https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/sharedaccountability/reports/2017/1771102HS%20Princ_SAT%20Partic_Perf%20Class%20of%202017.pdf

Thank god for magnets.

Given that it's mostly Asian that wouldn't have any real impact on another demographic but if you need to tell yourself that to feel less bad about your kids school be my guest.