Is there a Maryland equivalent to TJ?

[Anonymous]

Just curious.

[Anonymous]

No.

[Anonymous]

Yes there is. Montgomery Blair magnet program -- heavily focuses on science & technology with a significant number of grads attending Ivy/Ivy-equivalent schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes there is. Montgomery Blair magnet program -- heavily focuses on science & technology with a significant number of grads attending Ivy/Ivy-equivalent schools.

totally agree

This program attracts students who will eventually find a cure for cancer, build a housing development on Mars, and figure out a way to walk on water w/o getting their feet wet.

VERY competitive, however, and almost impossible to get in . . . which is fair, in this case!

I know; I taught there years ago.

[Anonymous]

The Blair Magnet is great -- DC has an application in, cross your fingers for us!

For the less mathematically-inclined in MoCo, there is a magnet IB program at Richard Montgomery. And Blair also has the Communication Arts Program (CAP), which they don't call a magnet for some administrative reason, but it's still a competitive entry process. Both are also very hard to get into, about 1 in 6 or something like that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No.

I.T.A.

[Anonymous]

I had an intern from the Blair science magnet program. In 11th grade he wrote as well as many graduate students, and had many interesting stories about building robots and competing in national competitions. He went on to Princeton, where he got excellent grades. If your measure of a high school is whether a student there can have outstanding educational opportunities, be prepared to succeed at a top university, and be admitted to the same, then Blair's math/science magnet is a very strong school.

[Anonymous]

Agreed. I know a brilliant young female physicist who graduated from Blair magnet 10 years ago. BRILLIANT.

[Anonymous]

Maybe what the "no" posters mean is that the Blair program is smaller? Or possibly not as well known? I'll let them explain (and correct me on the size, if needed, but I think that's right).

Anyway, in the Private School thread somebody just posted this on the Intel semifinalists:

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/39575.page

[Anonymous]

Would the naysayers please explain what they see as the major differences between the programs? (And if the Blair program is significantly smaller, than its numbers are even more impressive.)

[Anonymous]

["then," of course]

[Anonymous]

http://www.mbhs.edu/departments/magnet/

Blair Magnet website

[Anonymous]

So out of 100 kids, 12 are intel semifinalists? That's super impressive.

[Anonymous]

Blair is definitely smaller.

http://information.tjhsst.edu/

"There are approximately 450 students each in grades nine, ten, eleven, and twelve. "

[Anonymous]

I'm not one of the "naysayers", but my guess is that they are referring to the fact that Blair is a magnet within a much larger high school. While TJ is self-contained (I believe). So the Blair magnet doesn't get to the top of the US News & World Report list the way TJ does.