Hypothetical MoCo HS Magnet STEM Options

[Anonymous]

People did respond and said to understand which is the best fit - project focused vs very mathy, etc

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People did respond and said to understand which is the best fit - project focused vs very mathy, etc

Thank you! I was one of those responders. Glad someone noticed!

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. So ... back to the original question: If a student applied to, and was accepted in, all of Blair SMACS, Wheaton Engineering, and Wheaton Biomed, which would you choose and why?

Can anyone give an answer without referring to whether magnets are good/bad or whether a student should want to limit themselves to STEM?

So far, all I've seen on topic basically says choose Blair SMACS because it's more competitive, has higher top-college admission rates, and has been around longer. All very good points. Maybe the answer is just go with the "best" as marketed.

Are there any arguments for the other two (or among the other two)? Again, presuming a student is accepted to all three and has an actual choice....

People have given you great answers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. So ... back to the original question: If a student applied to, and was accepted in, all of Blair SMACS, Wheaton Engineering, and Wheaton Biomed, which would you choose and why?

Can anyone give an answer without referring to whether magnets are good/bad or whether a student should want to limit themselves to STEM?

So far, all I've seen on topic basically says choose Blair SMACS because it's more competitive, has higher top-college admission rates, and has been around longer. All very good points. Maybe the answer is just go with the "best" as marketed.

Are there any arguments for the other two (or among the other two)? Again, presuming a student is accepted to all three and has an actual choice....

Most likely he won’t get in to all 3. Why not come back next year and ask after your DC is actually accepted to all 3?

[Anonymous]

when do we get the Magnet test result for HS? anyone know? anyone already got one?

[Anonymous]

First wk of feb

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Anonymous wrote: both parents went to top college and expect the same of our kids

Well, there's your problem right there.

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Anonymous wrote:I wanted to post this before the actual selection results come out. (I'm a parent of a current 7th grader, so this will apply to us next year.) Let's say, hypothetically, that a student applied to, and was accepted in, all of Blair SMACS, Wheaton Engineering, and Wheaton Biomed. Which would you choose and why?

(Our child wants to do something in STEM (current TMPS magnet, both parents went to top college and expect the same of our kids). I listed only those three programs because we live in the DCC too far for the bus ride to Poolesville Global Ecology. Unless another magnet program would still have a good math/science education (RMIB?). We're really trying to understand the options here.)

Chill, OP. Lots of people in this area went to top colleges.

You can expect whatever you want of your kids, but they are their own people, and in any case there are a lot of paths to success outside of magnet programs and top colleges.