DCC Choice Results

[Anonymous]

Northwood is going to be in North Bethesda for 3 years. Hard to know what to make of that

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We have a bunch of families with rising 9th graders on our street this year and went through this ourselves a couple years ago with our daughter (zoned for Northwood). All put either Blair or Einstein as their first and second choice. No one got Blair (in my many years of knowing kids going through this, I have never known a kid unless sibling linked or accepted to the CAP/STEM program to get Blair through the lottery - literally not once). One of the kids got Einstein (was his first choice). All the other kids got their third - Northwood.

Obviously this is anecdotal, but seems a total waste of a spot to put Blair. You’re not going to get it. Wheaton and Einstein are a crapshoot but at least there is a small chance.

Everyone says this, but my (perpetually lucky) oldest daughter got Blair in the first round DCC lottery with no sibling or any hook/program. Home school is Einstein. Then this year, my youngest daughter’s best friend did too- no hooks or anything, no siblings, no program, zoned for Northwood. It happens. Just not often. But if you want Blair, put it first!

The school's overcrowded. There just aren't a lot of spots, especially since anyone who has Blair as their home school wants it.

Wheaton and Einstein are more overcrowded than Blair now. The only DCC school with available space is Kennedy.

Blair is only about 600 overcapacity but at least Einstein and Wheaton will have Woodward nearby to help alleviate this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have a bunch of families with rising 9th graders on our street this year and went through this ourselves a couple years ago with our daughter (zoned for Northwood). All put either Blair or Einstein as their first and second choice. No one got Blair (in my many years of knowing kids going through this, I have never known a kid unless sibling linked or accepted to the CAP/STEM program to get Blair through the lottery - literally not once). One of the kids got Einstein (was his first choice). All the other kids got their third - Northwood.

Obviously this is anecdotal, but seems a total waste of a spot to put Blair. You’re not going to get it. Wheaton and Einstein are a crapshoot but at least there is a small chance.

Everyone says this, but my (perpetually lucky) oldest daughter got Blair in the first round DCC lottery with no sibling or any hook/program. Home school is Einstein. Then this year, my youngest daughter’s best friend did too- no hooks or anything, no siblings, no program, zoned for Northwood. It happens. Just not often. But if you want Blair, put it first!

The school's overcrowded. There just aren't a lot of spots, especially since anyone who has Blair as their home school wants it.

Wheaton and Einstein are more overcrowded than Blair now. The only DCC school with available space is Kennedy.

Ahhh Kennedy. The perpetual last choice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have a bunch of families with rising 9th graders on our street this year and went through this ourselves a couple years ago with our daughter (zoned for Northwood). All put either Blair or Einstein as their first and second choice. No one got Blair (in my many years of knowing kids going through this, I have never known a kid unless sibling linked or accepted to the CAP/STEM program to get Blair through the lottery - literally not once). One of the kids got Einstein (was his first choice). All the other kids got their third - Northwood.

Obviously this is anecdotal, but seems a total waste of a spot to put Blair. You’re not going to get it. Wheaton and Einstein are a crapshoot but at least there is a small chance.

Everyone says this, but my (perpetually lucky) oldest daughter got Blair in the first round DCC lottery with no sibling or any hook/program. Home school is Einstein. Then this year, my youngest daughter’s best friend did too- no hooks or anything, no siblings, no program, zoned for Northwood. It happens. Just not often. But if you want Blair, put it first!

The school's overcrowded. There just aren't a lot of spots, especially since anyone who has Blair as their home school wants it.

Wheaton and Einstein are more overcrowded than Blair now. The only DCC school with available space is Kennedy.

I have kids at Blair and Wheaton, and Wheaton does not seem overcrowded (except at the terribly designed pickup loop). Blair had several trailers (mine graduated 2 years ago). Not sure what the numbers are though.

23-24 preliminary numbers:

Blair 363 over capacity
Einstein 418 over capacity
Kennedy 312 under capacity
Northwood 231 over capacity
Wheaton 484 over capacity

https://gis.mcpsmd.org/cipmasterpdfs/CIP25_Chapter4DCC.pdf

[Anonymous]

12:47pm poster who has a friend's kid in Einstein VAC/IB:

Do you know how they made the scheduling work? I've been told you can't do both, though my DD will come into a high level language from being in immersion through middle school. I'm hoping that, combined with taking health/PE/tech over the summers and early would free up enough elective spots for IB classes AND VAC classes junior and senior year. Worst case, could always do a certificate in a few subjects but not the whole diploma.

[Anonymous]

I didn't think you could take PE in the summer?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have a bunch of families with rising 9th graders on our street this year and went through this ourselves a couple years ago with our daughter (zoned for Northwood). All put either Blair or Einstein as their first and second choice. No one got Blair (in my many years of knowing kids going through this, I have never known a kid unless sibling linked or accepted to the CAP/STEM program to get Blair through the lottery - literally not once). One of the kids got Einstein (was his first choice). All the other kids got their third - Northwood.

Obviously this is anecdotal, but seems a total waste of a spot to put Blair. You’re not going to get it. Wheaton and Einstein are a crapshoot but at least there is a small chance.

Everyone says this, but my (perpetually lucky) oldest daughter got Blair in the first round DCC lottery with no sibling or any hook/program. Home school is Einstein. Then this year, my youngest daughter’s best friend did too- no hooks or anything, no siblings, no program, zoned for Northwood. It happens. Just not often. But if you want Blair, put it first!

The school's overcrowded. There just aren't a lot of spots, especially since anyone who has Blair as their home school wants it.

Wheaton and Einstein are more overcrowded than Blair now. The only DCC school with available space is Kennedy.

Ahhh Kennedy. The perpetual last choice.

The consortium always should have been more east-west, as originally envisioned, than north-south. Too many elites were terrified of the thought, though.

[Anonymous]

We live in Kennedy neighborhood and have older kids there (both love it!). Our choices for this kid was Einstein, Blair, Northwood, Wheaton, Kennedy. We got Einstein.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We live in Kennedy neighborhood and have older kids there (both love it!). Our choices for this kid was Einstein, Blair, Northwood, Wheaton, Kennedy. We got Einstein.

The most impressive high schoolers on the panel of DCC students that my middle schooler attended were from Kennedy. The least? CAP kids from Blair. And I have a CAP kid (not on the panel, though).

The one Kennedy kid said, “don’t choose a high school, or activities once you get to that high school, because of how it’ll affect your college chances… high school is not one extended college application. It’s its own thing. Just do things you enjoy and it will own out.”

I nearly cried with happiness that some kid, at Kennedy!, gets it. The CAP kids on the other hand? Loved to hear themselves talk and it was really cringey.

Anyway, I know Kennedy is probably not as well run as Blair, and doesn’t have the PTA bench strength of Einstein, or the beautiful building and smart science kids like Wheaton, but after that panel? I really did come away impressed with the sort of peers that my kid would have at that school. I wanted to ask him who his parents were so I could congratulate them!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:12:47pm poster who has a friend's kid in Einstein VAC/IB:

Do you know how they made the scheduling work? I've been told you can't do both, though my DD will come into a high level language from being in immersion through middle school. I'm hoping that, combined with taking health/PE/tech over the summers and early would free up enough elective spots for IB classes AND VAC classes junior and senior year. Worst case, could always do a certificate in a few subjects but not the whole diploma.

I don't think they have PE over the summer or I didn't see it. You can do the tech requirement in MS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We live in Kennedy neighborhood and have older kids there (both love it!). Our choices for this kid was Einstein, Blair, Northwood, Wheaton, Kennedy. We got Einstein.

The most impressive high schoolers on the panel of DCC students that my middle schooler attended were from Kennedy. The least? CAP kids from Blair. And I have a CAP kid (not on the panel, though).

The one Kennedy kid said, “don’t choose a high school, or activities once you get to that high school, because of how it’ll affect your college chances… high school is not one extended college application. It’s its own thing. Just do things you enjoy and it will own out.”

I nearly cried with happiness that some kid, at Kennedy!, gets it. The CAP kids on the other hand? Loved to hear themselves talk and it was really cringey.

Anyway, I know Kennedy is probably not as well run as Blair, and doesn’t have the PTA bench strength of Einstein, or the beautiful building and smart science kids like Wheaton, but after that panel? I really did come away impressed with the sort of peers that my kid would have at that school. I wanted to ask him who his parents were so I could congratulate them!

The PTA doesn't do much at Einstein. The booster clubs raise money but don't do anything above or extra beyond basic fundraising.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We live in Kennedy neighborhood and have older kids there (both love it!). Our choices for this kid was Einstein, Blair, Northwood, Wheaton, Kennedy. We got Einstein.

The most impressive high schoolers on the panel of DCC students that my middle schooler attended were from Kennedy. The least? CAP kids from Blair. And I have a CAP kid (not on the panel, though).

The one Kennedy kid said, “don’t choose a high school, or activities once you get to that high school, because of how it’ll affect your college chances… high school is not one extended college application. It’s its own thing. Just do things you enjoy and it will own out.”

I nearly cried with happiness that some kid, at Kennedy!, gets it. The CAP kids on the other hand? Loved to hear themselves talk and it was really cringey.

Anyway, I know Kennedy is probably not as well run as Blair, and doesn’t have the PTA bench strength of Einstein, or the beautiful building and smart science kids like Wheaton, but after that panel? I really did come away impressed with the sort of peers that my kid would have at that school. I wanted to ask him who his parents were so I could congratulate them!

Same exact impressions from me at our MS panel presentation!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We live in Kennedy neighborhood and have older kids there (both love it!). Our choices for this kid was Einstein, Blair, Northwood, Wheaton, Kennedy. We got Einstein.

The most impressive high schoolers on the panel of DCC students that my middle schooler attended were from Kennedy. The least? CAP kids from Blair. And I have a CAP kid (not on the panel, though).

The one Kennedy kid said, “don’t choose a high school, or activities once you get to that high school, because of how it’ll affect your college chances… high school is not one extended college application. It’s its own thing. Just do things you enjoy and it will own out.”

I nearly cried with happiness that some kid, at Kennedy!, gets it. The CAP kids on the other hand? Loved to hear themselves talk and it was really cringey.

Anyway, I know Kennedy is probably not as well run as Blair, and doesn’t have the PTA bench strength of Einstein, or the beautiful building and smart science kids like Wheaton, but after that panel? I really did come away impressed with the sort of peers that my kid would have at that school. I wanted to ask him who his parents were so I could congratulate them!

Same exact impressions from me at our MS panel presentation!

As a Kennedy IB parent, I appreciate you guys. I've watched everyone work so hard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: Northwood is going to be in North Bethesda for 3 years. Hard to know what to make of that

Brand new building!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We live in Kennedy neighborhood and have older kids there (both love it!). Our choices for this kid was Einstein, Blair, Northwood, Wheaton, Kennedy. We got Einstein.

Curious. Why rank Kennedy the last choice if you live there and your other DCs loved it? What did each of the other schools offer that your current 8th grader liked more?