Holton vs RMIB

[Anonymous]

Agree they are both making the same point.

Your child may know these things exist or may even witness something but it's not going to happen every day and it's not like your child will have to fear being jumped while going to school or be in a classroom full of stoned kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is unbelievable the things people will make up on this board just to make people decline a spot at a magnet.

This is a private school board. No one here cares about magnet spots LOL - and most that get into RMIB get into other magnets anyway.

+1

RMIB has not done well over the past 5 years as it used to. Not sure why but the other magnets have surpassed it and many kids pick other magnet spots. It isn’t that hard. And a lot of families don’t want the long commutes added to already too rigorous schedules.

? their diploma rate disagrees with your statement. But it's true, a lot of families don't want to deal with long commutes and too rigorous schedules. That doesn't stop the many kids from Clarksburg/Germantown area from attending RMIB.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For APs vs. IB at RM, frankly, the APs were a breeze and most of my IB classmates barely had to study for them, which is why most of us took so many.

Also agreed it was not cutthroat, we collaborated all the time to get HW done — it would have been impossible otherwise. Also a general misery loves company feeling, which resulted in strong camaraderie.

As for the non-IB drugs/alcohol/violence, generally the IB group stayed out, there was a bit of mixing with drugs (just weed)/alcohol by junior and senior year, especially with those on JV/Varsity sports, but it wasn’t a ton, and the kids who were smoking weed still had really stellar grades and seemed a bit bored because they were so far ahead of the rest of us. Didn’t really impact our every day, and frankly I look back and am grateful not to have been so sheltered.

Class is made up of a ton of immigrant children, most of the immigrants have MD/PhDs themselves, so it’s definitely a self selecting high-achieving bunch.

I would say 30% of the original 100 ended up going to a top 20-30 school. A number of kids with perfect standardized test scores, or very close to perfect.

Coming out of RMIB gave me a huge amount of confidence in college, and would highly recommend only if your child is ready to work really hard during HS.

But Holton has about 100 graduating each year and easily 30% are going to top 30 schools. And they aren't the top kids hand selected in a county of 90,000 high schoolers. Top schools know Holton girls are educated well, prepared, well rounded, and can handle their college. It isn't just how many AP's taught by non college professors that you can shove in your public school transcript. And the grading isn't so curved that everyone has 4.5 GPA's.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is unbelievable the things people will make up on this board just to make people decline a spot at a magnet.

This is a private school board. No one here cares about magnet spots LOL - and most that get into RMIB get into other magnets anyway.

+1

RMIB has not done well over the past 5 years as it used to. Not sure why but the other magnets have surpassed it and many kids pick other magnet spots. It isn’t that hard. And a lot of families don’t want the long commutes added to already too rigorous schedules.

? their diploma rate disagrees with your statement. But it's true, a lot of families don't want to deal with long commutes and too rigorous schedules. That doesn't stop the many kids from Clarksburg/Germantown area from attending RMIB.

Their diploma rate is like 60% when you factor in originals and 11th graders coming in. The rate was much higher when the last director was there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For APs vs. IB at RM, frankly, the APs were a breeze and most of my IB classmates barely had to study for them, which is why most of us took so many.

Also agreed it was not cutthroat, we collaborated all the time to get HW done — it would have been impossible otherwise. Also a general misery loves company feeling, which resulted in strong camaraderie.

As for the non-IB drugs/alcohol/violence, generally the IB group stayed out, there was a bit of mixing with drugs (just weed)/alcohol by junior and senior year, especially with those on JV/Varsity sports, but it wasn’t a ton, and the kids who were smoking weed still had really stellar grades and seemed a bit bored because they were so far ahead of the rest of us. Didn’t really impact our every day, and frankly I look back and am grateful not to have been so sheltered.

Class is made up of a ton of immigrant children, most of the immigrants have MD/PhDs themselves, so it’s definitely a self selecting high-achieving bunch.

I would say 30% of the original 100 ended up going to a top 20-30 school. A number of kids with perfect standardized test scores, or very close to perfect.

Coming out of RMIB gave me a huge amount of confidence in college, and would highly recommend only if your child is ready to work really hard during HS.

But Holton has about 100 graduating each year and easily 30% are going to top 30 schools. And they aren't the top kids hand selected in a county of 90,000 high schoolers. Top schools know Holton girls are educated well, prepared, well rounded, and can handle their college. It isn't just how many AP's taught by non college professors that you can shove in your public school transcript. And the grading isn't so curved that everyone has 4.5 GPA's.

How can you say the Holton kids are not hand selected?