National Merit list?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honestly if I have a kid who is not TJ/Blair material and he gets into STA or Sidwell, he has a good shot at getting into a nationally ranked University or SLAC. Maybe I would cough up $40,000 to see if he could into UVA and W&M.

The typical TJ/Blair student probably wouldn't get in to STA or Sidwell (or GDS or Holton or Potomac or NCS) - there just isn't room for them. Most parents at the $40k private schools aren't as eager to drive their children into math/science as the typical middle-class family so the STEM magnets are just not very attractive to them. A lot of upper middle class parents in Washington have professions in law, politics, diplomacy, and policy so its not surprising that their children also disproportionately pursue those areas of study. To these parents, tuition buys small class sizes that foster better class discussions and much higher expectations for reading and writing than any of the publics can afford.

What do you mean there isn't room for them?
What do you mean typical TJ/Blair student probably wouldn't get into STA or Sidwell (or GDS or Holton or Potomac or NCS)?

+1 Therem ay be an affordability issue which could factor into private school admission. Otherwise Sidwell/NCS/STA would like to have most magnet kids because they are smart.

[Anonymous]

Try 40% for MoCo magnets.


It's 41 percent for Montgomery county magnets in the lower half of the county this year. Amazing


It's 35%.

35 to 41 % vs. random blips. What's the take home message here?

[Anonymous]

It's 41 percent at Blair and 41 percent at RM IB. Some of these Virginia posters dont realize they are 2 separate programs at separate schools. The main finding of interest is that the smartest kids really are in the DC area, NYC and CA. No surprise but that is where the smartest kids are going to school. Yes, you can have that one smart child at a random school but they are the big fish at a small pond. Our children are fortunate they are growing up in the DC area.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's 41 percent at Blair and 41 percent at RM IB. Some of these Virginia posters dont realize they are 2 separate programs at separate schools. The main finding of interest is that the smartest kids really are in the DC area, NYC and CA. No surprise but that is where the smartest kids are going to school. Yes, you can have that one smart child at a random school but they are the big fish at a small pond. Our children are fortunate they are growing up in the DC area.

It's approximately 35% for RM IB and and we do not yet know for the Blair science magnet since 41 number for Blair is for the entire Blair students including non-magnet students, students in the CAP program and students in the science magnet program.


http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/135/495002.page#7574667

[Anonymous]

That poster sayings its 35 is wrong! They don't understand MCPS either. It's 41 percent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That poster sayings its 35 is wrong! They don't understand MCPS either. It's 41 percent.

"I am not the poster who suggested the RM IB NMSF percentage was 35%. However, I just looked for some data. The profile for RM's IB program states that roughly 25% of the school's students are in the IB magnet program. RM had 482 seniors last year. That translates to roughly 120 magnet students. Even assuming that all 41 semifinalists were in the magnet program, which may or may not be true, that would be about 35%. It seems like a reasonable estimate. But even if it were understated, the much larger total of NMSF at TJ would still be more relevant."


"funny... lier asking for legitimacy?"

"We know the number of TJ NMSF 164
http://patch.com/virginia/mclean/record-number-fcp...national-merit-semifinalists-0
We know the class size for TJ 458
http://schoolprofiles.fcps.edu/schlprfl/f?p=108:107:0:::0_CURRENT_SCHOOL_ID:300
You provide the sources for RM IB's NMSF numbers and the RM IB's exact class size as well before calling anybody "lier"."

"You got your answer so where did you get the 162 and 500 numbers? Still waiting..."

"At this point, it's quite clear the RM/IB parent has lost the argument, so all she's going to do now is spew personal insults and try to make it harder for people to finds the posts on the thread that actually set forth the facts."

[Anonymous]

RM IB program has 100 people. That is the error of the above post. Blair magnet has 100 students too. It's a fixed number accepted. If anything the number would drop down, not rise up. TJ claims 500 students drops down to 4xx so maybe the same is true for RM IB and its 50 percent not 41!. TJ parents just stop it already.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:RM IB program has 100 people. That is the error of the above post. Blair magnet has 100 students too. It's a fixed number accepted. If anything the number would drop down, not rise up. TJ claims 500 students drops down to 4xx so maybe the same is true for RM IB and its 50 percent not 41!. TJ parents just stop it already.

Where did the 500 number for TJ class come from?
Where did the 162 nmsf number for TJ come from?
How come you don't answer as you said you would?
Why do you make offensive remarks and call posters who disagree with you "lier" and "crazy" etc. but refuse to say where you came up with 162 and 500 number you keep using for TJ?

[Anonymous]

correction:

35 to 41 % for the local magnets vs. random blips for the local privates. What's the take home message here?

[Anonymous]

Has anyone seen a list for DC yet?

[Anonymous]

No, and I've been looking. My DD is on it and I want to know who else from her class is! So my motives are not that good and it's probably just as well if it never surfaces.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, and I've been looking. My DD is on it and I want to know who else from her class is! So my motives are not that good and it's probably just as well if it never surfaces.

I like you. Human desires human regret and human guilt.

Congrats to your daughter.

[Anonymous]

Does any one have a link to the list for the DC schools? I see someone posted Maryland and Virginia... but not DC. I can't find a press release or article anywhere. Thank you!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does any one have a link to the list for the DC schools? I see someone posted Maryland and Virginia... but not DC. I can't find a press release or article anywhere. Thank you!

That's weird. Isn't the Washington, DC list put out there annually? Which media outlets usually publish the list? I wonder why they haven't done it when MD and VA lists are already published.

[Anonymous]

I just read on the College forum that the DC list will not be published this year because the inclusion or absence of Malia Obama would cause too much scrutiny. Who knows if this is accurate information?