Einstein/Blair and college admissions

[Anonymous]

Are students from these and similarly regarded MCPS schools (non math/science magnet) at a disadvantage for college admissions?

[Anonymous]

No. Even non-magnet kids benefit from the name recognition the schools provide. Obviously a 5.0 from the magnet program at Blair is going to show better than a 5.0 from non-magnet, but either one is going to get attention from every major program.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No. Even non-magnet kids benefit from the name recognition the schools provide. Obviously a 5.0 from the magnet program at Blair is going to show better than a 5.0 from non-magnet, but either one is going to get attention from every major program.

Such a BS.

[Anonymous]

Yea... 9:27 is full of it.

I think you will have a disadvantage for specific schools that the magnet/IB kids are applying to like MIT and Princeton.
You will have an advantage to schools like U of Michigan and other colleges that are considered less prestigious by the IB parents but popular in the W schools since you will just be competing against the other kids in the non-magnet program.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yea... 9:27 is full of it.

I think you will have a disadvantage for specific schools that the magnet/IB kids are applying to like MIT and Princeton.
You will have an advantage to schools like U of Michigan and other colleges that are considered less prestigious by the IB parents but popular in the W schools since you will just be competing against the other kids in the non-magnet program.

So you don't think these kids are competing against the W kids? I wonder if an Einstein student with the same record as a W student is at a disadvantage.

[Anonymous]

An Einstein kid is at an advantage over W because the quotas hurt W kids at the most selective schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:An Einstein kid is at an advantage over W because the quotas hurt W kids at the most selective schools.

There are quotas?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:An Einstein kid is at an advantage over W because the quotas hurt W kids at the most selective schools.

There are quotas?

NP - I think PP meant "soft quotas" - not technically a quota per se but colleges don't like picking all of their kids from the same HS. One of the reasons kids with excellent stats/EC from magnet/IB can't get into Ivies, M, and S.

A kid from Einstein may have an advantage over a kid from W-school providing they have equal qualifications.

[Anonymous]

I know a teacher at both schools very well they have students each year going to the top colleges just like the kids at Whitman, b cc , chirchill etc. they say it is just different at their schools because the parents aren't as obsessed with the status as the parents at the other schools are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know a teacher at both schools very well they have students each year going to the top colleges just like the kids at Whitman, b cc , chirchill etc. they say it is just different at their schools because the parents aren't as obsessed with the status as the parents at the other schools are.

Sounds good to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:An Einstein kid is at an advantage over W because the quotas hurt W kids at the most selective schools.

There are quotas?

NP - I think PP meant "soft quotas" - not technically a quota per se but colleges don't like picking all of their kids from the same HS. One of the reasons kids with excellent stats/EC from magnet/IB can't get into Ivies, M, and S.

A kid from Einstein may have an advantage over a kid from W-school providing they have equal qualifications.

This is what I meant. You can see like 30 kids from a W school go to Michigan. Not so many in the other schools and they are not going to fill their school with all kids from 1 school.

Also there is the full pay aspect ... if you are full pay to a school like Michigan who is trying to right their economy, that could make a difference.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know a teacher at both schools very well they have students each year going to the top colleges just like the kids at Whitman, b cc , chirchill etc. they say it is just different at their schools because the parents aren't as obsessed with the status as the parents at the other schools are.

No doubt but not the equal number of kids - not even close.

[Anonymous]

But is it unequal because there aren't as many qualified and interested applicants or because it's actually harder to get in from Einstein?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:But is it unequal because there aren't as many qualified and interested applicants or because it's actually harder to get in from Einstein?

In avg, kids from W schools and magnets will have higher stats than kids from Einstein. So, I guess you could say there are more qualified kids from a W school than E.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:An Einstein kid is at an advantage over W because the quotas hurt W kids at the most selective schools.

There are quotas?

NP - I think PP meant "soft quotas" - not technically a quota per se but colleges don't like picking all of their kids from the same HS. One of the reasons kids with excellent stats/EC from magnet/IB can't get into Ivies, M, and S.

A kid from Einstein may have an advantage over a kid from W-school providing they have equal qualifications.

A kid at a W school may have an advantage over a kid from Einstein in achieving those qualifications. Stronger peer groups matter.