College admissions and Blair high school courses
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Anonymous
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Some of you are so nasty, why?
My Blair CAP kids both took magnet courses. One DC took magnet statistics, and they were doing linear regression before the end of September. As a grad student I took statistics at U Penn’s graduate Economics department from a guy who worked at Wharton Econometrics, and we didn’t get to regression until the end of the semester. Yes, Blair magnet classes are comparable to college-level classes. |
Anonymous
| How the hell did you take graduate Econometrics without taking undergraduate Econometrics? |
Anonymous
Of course I took undergraduate econometrics. How the hell did you miss the point so badly? The point is, my graduate-level econometrics class, in a well-regarded Economics graduate department featuring one Nobel price winner and at least one prof who won a Nobel after I left, went at a much slower pace than Blair’s magnet statistics class. |
Anonymous
It’s pretty hard to fathom a. Why you hate the Blair magnet program—which is after all just a program of smart, hard-working kids—so much. b. Why you refuse to believe what actual magnet parents tell you about the program, and keep spewing your bs about subpar classes as of this were some AP program at a 3rd-tier public, and c. Where all your obnoxious, childish bluster comes from. |
Anonymous
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Linear regression can be taught at many different levels. Your post gave no indication of the level at Blair or at UPenn.
(I highly doubt that you took "Statistics" in a grad econ school. That should be called Econometrics.) ...and I thought TJ parents were deluded and obnoxious. |
Anonymous
Um... I have a kid at TJ and a PhD in Economics from a top 3 program. I wouldn't put up with this crap from TJ parents either. PS: That Math prof that posted earlier was spot on. |
Anonymous
Total BS, because you would have mentioned it earlier. You are, however, an obnoxious and weirdly obsessive jerk. |
Anonymous
Actually, it was called Statistics. You should know this. I’ve taken several stats classes starting in high school, and after all the distributions and t-tests they all wind up doing regression at some point—but my kid’s magnet class got to regression really early on. If you had ever taken Statistics yourself, you’d know this. Guess what else: I routinely do logistic regressions at work. What exactly about the Blair magnet makes you foam at the mouth like a rabid dog? So weird. |
Anonymous
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Me obsessive because I first comment four pages in?
If you class was called "Statistics" it would be taught by the Math department. I don't give a flying f about Blair. My interest is how people view the quality of math courses at magnet schools. Congrats on doing logits occasionally at work. 
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Anonymous
The actual Blair parents are ignoring you, which is what you deserve. What I can’t understand is why you’re bullying me, the parent of a CAP kid who took magnet stats. Out of the blue, you accuse me of claiming i didn’t take college stats, when I never said any such thing. Then you go down the ridiculous path of arguing that stats classes (high school or grad school) don’t include linear regression, when nothing could be further from the truth. Now you’re going down some bizarre new path of disputing that econ grad students take statistics (seriously, wtf?). All because you hate some high school’s magnet program. So very, very weird. Did your kid not get in? What was so threatening to you about my original post that my kid’s magnet stats class went faster than my stats class at a well-regarded graduate school. You claim you want to know about the quality of magnet classes. But when you get an answer you don’t like—that the quality is good—you spew vile bs and bully the poster. What exactly is wrong with you? Where is all this irrational rage coming from? What type of personality disorder do you have? |
Anonymous
PS. Nobody “does logits.” They “do logistic regressions” and then talk about the logits there. You’re clearly unqualified to talk about the quality of magnet statistics classes, or any other college or grad statistics classes. I suppose that’s why you’ve moved on to bizarre ad hominems about the posters who can talk with authority about magnet statistics classes. But your ignorance once again begs the question, what exactly is the source of your rabid hatred of the Blair magnet? Or are you just crazy? |
Anonymous
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Blair and TJ may be special to us around here, and I'm sure your kids are all accomplished and bright, but....
Once you get to the elite colleges, kids like yours are a dime a dozen. |
Anonymous
You clearly give every f in the world about Blair. Why? |
Anonymous
Just a guess, but is this the psychotic Asian mom who “had” to move her kids from the Blair district to the Poolesville district because the Latinos and blacks were moving into Blair’s 4-corners area where she lived? Who stalks the Blair principals’s tweets? |
Anonymous
Of course. My magnet kid at a USNWR top 5 figured that out the first week. Every major metropolitan area has its versions of TJ and Blair, and rural kids can be bright too, obviously. But, the magnet kids did have a definite leg up in the STEM classes. And, shockingly, lots of kids excel in the liberal arts instead of STEM 
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