Blair Magnet - geographical differences in acceptance rates?

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I think your assumptions are not correct. Most of DC's classmates from the Takoma Park area are UMC.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s funny how people move to good school districts and would never live in silver spring or within the DCC and yet expect their kids should go to the magnet.

Isn’t that the whole point of the word magnet? It attracts students from all over the county regardless of assigned local school? Also, with the whole lottery thing, it’s a good thing I bought a home in bounds for a “good” neighborhood school that has a peer cohort for my student because if I’d bought elsewhere and didn’t win a lottery spot, then I would be pretty concerned about the inequitable opportunities available at some local schools.

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Anonymous wrote:I think your assumptions are not correct. Most of DC's classmates from the Takoma Park area are UMC.

Okay, so what makes PP believe that those kids didn't get into TPMS on their own merit. Is there some sort of mass lead poisoning that would lead an UMC child from Takoma Park to be less qualified than an UMC child from Bethesda?

Folks can't have it both ways. Either Takoma Park is a perfectly nice place with smart kids and involved parents, so it makes sense that they would get spots in various magnets, or it is a nightmare hellhole where the kids only succeed due to "woke politics" perpetuated by a cabal of election officials.

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Anonymous wrote:I have heard from other parents that kids that come from Whitman/Churchill/ BCC/Wooten are less likely to get into the magnet program than kids from less privileged areas. I’m not sure if this is just rumor or an actual policy meant to help diversity. Just wondering if there had been any public discussions if this by MoCo school administrators. Thanks.

Funny many W parents claim that they're the most represented at the Magnets so both can't be true.

There was a data that MCPS published a while back showing that the W schools lost few kids to the magnets. Wootton lost the most while Whitman the least.

This.
If I remember correctly the last data I saw a while back, Whitman only lost 8 kids to the magnets.

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Anonymous wrote:I think your assumptions are not correct. Most of DC's classmates from the Takoma Park area are UMC.

Okay, so what makes PP believe that those kids didn't get into TPMS on their own merit. Is there some sort of mass lead poisoning that would lead an UMC child from Takoma Park to be less qualified than an UMC child from Bethesda?

Folks can't have it both ways. Either Takoma Park is a perfectly nice place with smart kids and involved parents, so it makes sense that they would get spots in various magnets, or it is a nightmare hellhole where the kids only succeed due to "woke politics" perpetuated by a cabal of election officials.

Not following your logic. It's about the percentages that are being accepted. A higher percentage of local kids whether they are UMC or not are being accepted due to the set asides. I don't know the exact number of elementary schools that feed into the TPMS magnet but it's 10 high school clusters so that's a lot of elementary schools.
BCC alone has 9 elementary schools, Churchill something like 5, Whitman 5, WJ 6.
There are only 3 elementary school that feed into TPMS.

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Anonymous wrote:I think your assumptions are not correct. Most of DC's classmates from the Takoma Park area are UMC.

Okay, so what makes PP believe that those kids didn't get into TPMS on their own merit. Is there some sort of mass lead poisoning that would lead an UMC child from Takoma Park to be less qualified than an UMC child from Bethesda?

Folks can't have it both ways. Either Takoma Park is a perfectly nice place with smart kids and involved parents, so it makes sense that they would get spots in various magnets, or it is a nightmare hellhole where the kids only succeed due to "woke politics" perpetuated by a cabal of election officials.

Not following your logic. It's about the percentages that are being accepted. A higher percentage of local kids whether they are UMC or not are being accepted due to the set asides. I don't know the exact number of elementary schools that feed into the TPMS magnet but it's 10 high school clusters so that's a lot of elementary schools.
BCC alone has 9 elementary schools, Churchill something like 5, Whitman 5, WJ 6.
There are only 3 elementary school that feed into TPMS.

LOL but don't mention that those ES are 2X larger than the counterparts you mentioned.

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Anonymous wrote:I think your assumptions are not correct. Most of DC's classmates from the Takoma Park area are UMC.

Okay, so what makes PP believe that those kids didn't get into TPMS on their own merit. Is there some sort of mass lead poisoning that would lead an UMC child from Takoma Park to be less qualified than an UMC child from Bethesda?

Folks can't have it both ways. Either Takoma Park is a perfectly nice place with smart kids and involved parents, so it makes sense that they would get spots in various magnets, or it is a nightmare hellhole where the kids only succeed due to "woke politics" perpetuated by a cabal of election officials.

Not following your logic. It's about the percentages that are being accepted. A higher percentage of local kids whether they are UMC or not are being accepted due to the set asides. I don't know the exact number of elementary schools that feed into the TPMS magnet but it's 10 high school clusters so that's a lot of elementary schools.
BCC alone has 9 elementary schools, Churchill something like 5, Whitman 5, WJ 6.
There are only 3 elementary school that feed into TPMS.

LOL but don't mention that those ES are 2X larger than the counterparts you mentioned.

Ya schools like PBES have 10 classes per grade whereas a place like CCES has like 3.

[Anonymous]

Since students from TPMS feeding elementary schools are so smart and capable, why not take out the 25 set aside seats? They might even admit more local students this way.

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Anonymous wrote:I think your assumptions are not correct. Most of DC's classmates from the Takoma Park area are UMC.

Okay, so what makes PP believe that those kids didn't get into TPMS on their own merit. Is there some sort of mass lead poisoning that would lead an UMC child from Takoma Park to be less qualified than an UMC child from Bethesda?

Folks can't have it both ways. Either Takoma Park is a perfectly nice place with smart kids and involved parents, so it makes sense that they would get spots in various magnets, or it is a nightmare hellhole where the kids only succeed due to "woke politics" perpetuated by a cabal of election officials.

Not following your logic. It's about the percentages that are being accepted. A higher percentage of local kids whether they are UMC or not are being accepted due to the set asides. I don't know the exact number of elementary schools that feed into the TPMS magnet but it's 10 high school clusters so that's a lot of elementary schools.
BCC alone has 9 elementary schools, Churchill something like 5, Whitman 5, WJ 6.
There are only 3 elementary school that feed into TPMS.

LOL but don't mention that those ES are 2X larger than the counterparts you mentioned.

Ya schools like PBES have 10 classes per grade whereas a place like CCES has like 3.

Actual numbers: PBES has 213 5th graders, CCES has 185.

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Anonymous wrote:I think your assumptions are not correct. Most of DC's classmates from the Takoma Park area are UMC.

Okay, so what makes PP believe that those kids didn't get into TPMS on their own merit. Is there some sort of mass lead poisoning that would lead an UMC child from Takoma Park to be less qualified than an UMC child from Bethesda?

Folks can't have it both ways. Either Takoma Park is a perfectly nice place with smart kids and involved parents, so it makes sense that they would get spots in various magnets, or it is a nightmare hellhole where the kids only succeed due to "woke politics" perpetuated by a cabal of election officials.

Not following your logic. It's about the percentages that are being accepted. A higher percentage of local kids whether they are UMC or not are being accepted due to the set asides. I don't know the exact number of elementary schools that feed into the TPMS magnet but it's 10 high school clusters so that's a lot of elementary schools.
BCC alone has 9 elementary schools, Churchill something like 5, Whitman 5, WJ 6.
There are only 3 elementary school that feed into TPMS.

LOL but don't mention that those ES are 2X larger than the counterparts you mentioned.

Ya schools like PBES have 10 classes per grade whereas a place like CCES has like 3.

Actual numbers: PBES has 213 5th graders, CCES has 185.

Thank you for posting actual information. CCES usually has 5-7 classes per grade and they are usually filled to the max. I wish the Silver Spring posters would stop trying to turn every discussion into how their children and their schools are superior and manipulate data and facts to try to prove that. We get it. There are great students in all areas of MCPS.

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Anonymous wrote:Since students from TPMS feeding elementary schools are so smart and capable, why not take out the 25 set aside seats? They might even admit more local students this way.

Honestly, I think every magnet program should have a set aside for kids who are in-bounds. It would help break down barriers and foster stronger friendships across the Academy and Magnet programs. I mean, that's kind of what Potomac has with their in-bounds only Chinese immersion program, and what RM has for the IB program when it comes to 11th and 12th graders, and that policy should be expanded across the district.

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Anonymous wrote:I think your assumptions are not correct. Most of DC's classmates from the Takoma Park area are UMC.

Okay, so what makes PP believe that those kids didn't get into TPMS on their own merit. Is there some sort of mass lead poisoning that would lead an UMC child from Takoma Park to be less qualified than an UMC child from Bethesda?

Folks can't have it both ways. Either Takoma Park is a perfectly nice place with smart kids and involved parents, so it makes sense that they would get spots in various magnets, or it is a nightmare hellhole where the kids only succeed due to "woke politics" perpetuated by a cabal of election officials.

Do you truly not understand how various demographics impact educational attainment?

Let me guess, white privilege is a "weird concept" for you?

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Anonymous wrote:So there are actually 500 students in the magnet program? 400 that competed and 100 that were all local admits? The official MCPS letter sent to college students made it sound as if the 25 local set-asides were the same as the 100 selected from across the County. Wow. Shameful.

Every word of this is wrong. Blair does not have any local set-asides. Also, what "official MCPS letter sent to college students?"

It was posted on Blair's website so kids applying to college can include it with their application. It's on official letterhead and is addressed "To College Admissions Officers"

"The student whose application is enclosed is participating in the Science, Mathematics, Computer Science Magnet Program for highly able students at Montgomery Blair High School. Each year after careful screening of over 750 applicants from sixteen of the twenty-five high schools in Montgomery County, about 100 students are accepted for admission into the ninth grade. Our sister program at Poolesville High School accepts about 50 students from the remaining nine high schools in the county."

It's good that there are no "set-asides" in the Magnet Program. It would be quite the scandal if there were and parents would be furious that special treatment is given to Poolesville and Blair.

I hope the guidance counselor sent this letter to my kid’s colleges, because my kid sure didn’t.

Yes, it's for the school to send to the colleges along with the transcript. All schools do this.

Actually, I don't think it was sent by gcs last year. We got an email with it to add. I'm pretty sure gc only sent transcript which had magnet designation but not letter. My dd added selected content from the letter to the additional info section on the common app.

Just want to reiterate this in case it got lost in the petty squabbling. Those applying this year, double check with counselor and Mr. O.

Also, FWIW, we are TP residents and squarely middle class, though many would probably assume we were umc. And, the 25 seats are not set aside, they are in addition to a 100 seat program because they don't add students to the school as they are already zoned. Getting rid of the local 25 will add 0 seats for oob students.

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Anonymous wrote:So there are actually 500 students in the magnet program? 400 that competed and 100 that were all local admits? The official MCPS letter sent to college students made it sound as if the 25 local set-asides were the same as the 100 selected from across the County. Wow. Shameful.

Every word of this is wrong. Blair does not have any local set-asides. Also, what "official MCPS letter sent to college students?"

It was posted on Blair's website so kids applying to college can include it with their application. It's on official letterhead and is addressed "To College Admissions Officers"

"The student whose application is enclosed is participating in the Science, Mathematics, Computer Science Magnet Program for highly able students at Montgomery Blair High School. Each year after careful screening of over 750 applicants from sixteen of the twenty-five high schools in Montgomery County, about 100 students are accepted for admission into the ninth grade. Our sister program at Poolesville High School accepts about 50 students from the remaining nine high schools in the county."

It's good that there are no "set-asides" in the Magnet Program. It would be quite the scandal if there were and parents would be furious that special treatment is given to Poolesville and Blair.

I hope the guidance counselor sent this letter to my kid’s colleges, because my kid sure didn’t.

Yes, it's for the school to send to the colleges along with the transcript. All schools do this.

Actually, I don't think it was sent by gcs last year. We got an email with it to add. I'm pretty sure gc only sent transcript which had magnet designation but not letter. My dd added selected content from the letter to the additional info section on the common app.

Just want to reiterate this in case it got lost in the petty squabbling. Those applying this year, double check with counselor and Mr. O.

Also, FWIW, we are TP residents and squarely middle class, though many would probably assume we were umc. And, the 25 seats are not set aside, they are in addition to a 100 seat program because they don't add students to the school as they are already zoned. Getting rid of the local 25 will add 0 seats for oob students.

Most tp residents are not middle class.

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Anonymous wrote:So there are actually 500 students in the magnet program? 400 that competed and 100 that were all local admits? The official MCPS letter sent to college students made it sound as if the 25 local set-asides were the same as the 100 selected from across the County. Wow. Shameful.

Every word of this is wrong. Blair does not have any local set-asides. Also, what "official MCPS letter sent to college students?"

It was posted on Blair's website so kids applying to college can include it with their application. It's on official letterhead and is addressed "To College Admissions Officers"

"The student whose application is enclosed is participating in the Science, Mathematics, Computer Science Magnet Program for highly able students at Montgomery Blair High School. Each year after careful screening of over 750 applicants from sixteen of the twenty-five high schools in Montgomery County, about 100 students are accepted for admission into the ninth grade. Our sister program at Poolesville High School accepts about 50 students from the remaining nine high schools in the county."

It's good that there are no "set-asides" in the Magnet Program. It would be quite the scandal if there were and parents would be furious that special treatment is given to Poolesville and Blair.

I hope the guidance counselor sent this letter to my kid’s colleges, because my kid sure didn’t.

Yes, it's for the school to send to the colleges along with the transcript. All schools do this.

Actually, I don't think it was sent by gcs last year. We got an email with it to add. I'm pretty sure gc only sent transcript which had magnet designation but not letter. My dd added selected content from the letter to the additional info section on the common app.

Just want to reiterate this in case it got lost in the petty squabbling. Those applying this year, double check with counselor and Mr. O.

Also, FWIW, we are TP residents and squarely middle class, though many would probably assume we were umc. And, the 25 seats are not set aside, they are in addition to a 100 seat program because they don't add students to the school as they are already zoned. Getting rid of the local 25 will add 0 seats for oob students.

Most tp residents are not middle class.

Actually, most are lower middle, many upper middle, a good amount of farms, some middle, and I guess a few rich (though I don't know many of those)!