How did your MCPS-educated kid do in college?
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Anonymous
That's like the mcps course bulletin. Not all classes are offered at each of the high schools. |
Anonymous
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Op- it’s a huge county. I bet answers run the gamut. You know your kid and I’m sure they will be fine in college. No matter where kid goes for K-12 or college, it’s mostly what the kid (and parents) put in and less dependent on the school system.
This private vs public debate is just stupid and both of you arguing just make you look bad. Lincoln went to one year of formal schooling total… and look, he became President and one of the best. |
Anonymous
And there another example where someone "got into" Wharton, also became president and THE worst. |
Anonymous
| Kids learn to organize, protest and activism |
Anonymous
+1 This is a reason that private schools do not have many Asians. No Asian worth his/her salt will waste education dollars on dud education of private schools. |
Anonymous
My kid struggled first year at college; especially first semester. Got below a 3.0. She had never had to study before to get very good grades and high standardized test scores, so she had no study habits work ethic built up. She managed to turn it around and graduated on time with honors, but she definitely wasn't prepared for college right off. |
Anonymous
| My class of ‘24 kid is doing so great. We worried that since he just graduated from a “regular” (non-magnet, non-rich) MCPS high school that he wouldn’t be able to excel in college engineering but he really is. He took the most math and science his high school offered even though it wasn’t super magnet level, and that was more than enough preparation. |
Anonymous
Go look at the Catholic schools, especially the Catholic HS in this area. |
Anonymous
Not a lot of Asians. |
Anonymous
| Doing great. Kennedy IB graduate, now at competitive slac. |
Anonymous
| My Blair Magnet and regular HS grads did fine in college. One finished in 4 years and one in 3.5. |
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| Extremely well. Magna cum laude at UMD for engineering. |
Anonymous
| What % go on to Montgomery College from MCPS each year? |
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Mine went to RMIB and is at a top ranked college. I think they feel well prepared. They are a STEM major and say their writing is way better than most STEM students at their school, so they always do well on the assignments that are essay based--but not sure if that's a function of the IB program rather than MCPS generally.
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