B grades and its effect on High School Magnet App

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Anonymous wrote:Move to Virginia, they can accommodate more students in their G+T and magnet programs than MoCo ever does.

Yes, it's really easy to get into TJ

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Anonymous wrote:My son is really stressed out about this because many of his friends also applied they are all hoping to get in!

What MS he attends now? There are quite a few HS offer IB programs (RM is the only one with magnet IB). He might have more options than you realize. For instance, if he is attending a magnet MS, he has a choice to attend the HS the magnet school feeds into (if that HS offers IB program).

I think this works for Rock Creek Forest kids who are doing Spanish immersion, who can go to BCC, even if they are out of bounds for BCC, and then do IB at BCC. Otherwise, there is no "feeder" track from the Eastern or Takoma MS magnets to any of the IB programs at RM, BC, Kennedy or Einstein. It's true that lots of Eastern and Takoma magnet kids go on to RM or Blair, but that's because they do well on the tests and applications, not because there is a specific feeder system.

There are some downcounty consortium programs (this is different from magnet schools) for downcounty kids. These are done by lottery: at least from what I saw 2 years ago, you fill out a form listing your 1st, 2nd and maybe 3rd school choices within the consortium. From what I heard then, it was fairly easy to get into the Einstein IB program through the consortium, at least if you listed Einstein as #1 on the lottery entrance form.

I was talking about Clemente magnet program kids being able to feed into Seneca Valley IB program even if their home HS is not Seneca Valley. That is the reason I wanted to know where the PP's son goes to now.