Which school is harder to get in, Jefferson or Blair magnet
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Anonymous
No. I quote from TJHSST's webpage: All applicants to TJHSST must, at the time of application, live with a parent or legal guardian who resides full time in, and meets the residency requirements of, a school division that participates in TJHSST. (FCPS Regulation 3355.13) The applicant and the parent/legal guardian must actually reside (be present) in the participating school division at the time of application. If you own property here, but do not actually live here, you are not eligible to apply to TJHSST unless and until you actually reside here. The school divisions currently participating in TJHSST are: Arlington County Fairfax County (includes City of Fairfax) Falls Church City Loudoun County Prince William County Fauquier County Public Schools and the cities of Alexandria, Manassas, and Manassas Park do not currently participate in TJHSST. Students who live in those school divisions are not eligible to apply to, or attend, TJHSST. If you live in one of these school divisions and you have questions regarding their non-participation in TJHSST, please contact that school division directly for additional information. It is a violation of Virginia law (Va. Code § 22.1-264.1) to make false statements concerning the residency of a child for purposes of enrollment in a school outside of the attendance zone in which the student resides. |
Anonymous
You must be out of the area. It is like people from DC call it DC and others call it Washington or Washington DC |
Anonymous
So you are saying that a kid can apply to both Blair and Jefferson? Provided a kid does live in Blair designated area but of course not in VA. |
Anonymous
| Can I just say wow to the list of colleges the Blair class will be attending. |
Anonymous
No.... George Jefferson HS is on the East Side. |
Anonymous
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I think you are a troll. Not a single MC. Here is the list from last year:
The next stops for the Montgomery Blair SMAC Class of 2018... Boston University Brown University Cal Tech (3) Carnegie Mellon University (2) Cornell University (2) Duke University (2) Elon University Georgia Tech Harvard University (3) Johns Hopkins University (2) M.I.T. (6) Oxford University Princeton University Rice University Rochester Institute of Technology (2) Stanford University (2) Stevenson Institute of Technology Towson University University of California Berkeley University of California Los Angeles (2) University of California San Diego University of California Santa Barbara University of Delaware University of Maryland Baltimore County University of Maryland College Park (37) University of Miami University of Michigan University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill University of Pennsylvania (2) University of Pittsburgh (2) University of Southern California University of Toronto University of Vermont Vanderbilt University (2) +1 And with 3 admitted to Harvard, that's more admits than $40k/year st. albans. This list is attending not admitted. So admitted but not attending is probably more First of all there is nothing wrong with MC (as dual enrollment or after graduation) than guaranteed transfer to UMD. You save quite a lot of money that route. We heavily consider this for one of our magnet kids who wants to study at UMD. You can also use that route of other very good schools (with good GPA) and save a lot of money for OOS tuition. Another thing that you would notice by looking at this list that money is big issue here and plenty of families here with no FAFSA aid. Who would want to pay $80k+ a year with multiple kids? I am not in line. I have told my kids - no applications to Ivies. Pointless. We would not pay for it. I am surprised by only 1 for Ga Tech and 1 for Michigan. Probably two kids messed up their GPA with UMBC and Towson. (I would rather go to MC, but everyone is different) I bet that kids who went to Vermont, Miami, Delaware, and Pitt got good scholarships and just wanted to be away from home. It is not wise to spend $300K on college for one kid, unless you have huge amount of money in the family. |
Anonymous
| Sorry, quite a lot of typos above. |
Anonymous
+1 And with 3 admitted to Harvard, that's more admits than $40k/year st. albans. This list is attending not admitted. So admitted but not attending is probably more First of all there is nothing wrong with MC (as dual enrollment or after graduation) than guaranteed transfer to UMD. You save quite a lot of money that route. We heavily consider this for one of our magnet kids who wants to study at UMD. You can also use that route of other very good schools (with good GPA) and save a lot of money for OOS tuition. Another thing that you would notice by looking at this list that money is big issue here and plenty of families here with no FAFSA aid. Who would want to pay $80k+ a year with multiple kids? I am not in line. I have told my kids - no applications to Ivies. Pointless. We would not pay for it. I am surprised by only 1 for Ga Tech and 1 for Michigan. Probably two kids messed up their GPA with UMBC and Towson. (I would rather go to MC, but everyone is different) I bet that kids who went to Vermont, Miami, Delaware, and Pitt got good scholarships and just wanted to be away from home. It is not wise to spend $300K on college for one kid, unless you have huge amount of money in the family. No one said there is anything wrong with MC. It is a great resource for all kinds of students. It is not however where "plenty" of Blair magnet kids land..which a PP stated. |
Anonymous
| I personally think I rather send my kids to TJ. Everyone at TJ is bright and driven, it is only a small percentage of Blair’s population that is magnet with the rest pulling from the poorer parts of the county. I am sure many of those kids are hard workers but many won’t be, in a school that big there is almost as many dropouts as magnet kids. |
Anonymous
Perhaps, that was true 20-30 years ago, not sure, but these days it's not accurate. Further, as someone posted elsewhere Blair makes TJ their b**ch in every actual comparison. |
Anonymous
Blair vs TJ 
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Anonymous
Which part isn’t true? Blair is getting poorer and higher farms. Some middle class for sure but no one would call the university Blvd corridor a nice part of town |
Anonymous
Blair's 2018 SAT average was like 50 points higher than any W. |
Anonymous
W parents went crazy when that little tidbit came out. Before they could only point at the SAT scores to show they were better. Now that Blair scores shot up, they are sh$##ing on themselves. Their only advantage has disappeared. NMSF? Nope Presidential? Nope Science bowls? Nope Siemens? Nope Science Olympiads? Nope Math Olympiads? Nope Intel/Regeneron scholars? Hell no What are they good at actually? The consensus was classicism and racism. |