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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I haven't heard of anyone doing this. It sounds pretty stupid. Its true that there are seats set aside for TP students at the middle level who only compete against each other so the TP admits have much lower scores than kids from elsewhere in the county BUT every in boundary UMC kid is trying to get those spots. If you end up #26 you are basically screwed. The school does not rank high overall and the low performing students greatly outnumber the mediocre and high performing students. If your kids are young, its likely the magnet won't even exist when they reach middle school. The writing is on the wall so to speak that the magnet days are numbered in MCPS. You would most likely end up in private school.

We've had friends over the years who have lived in TP. Every single family went to private schools and looked at the magnets as a windfall if they got in (save 3 years of private school tuition) but no one counted on it. [/quote]

Do you really know that the TP kids’ scores are lower?  TP is a very stem-oriented area, with lots of scientist / intellectual parents whose kids are very smart.  There may be a few with an advantage of living here, but those in boundary spots are largely taken by kids who would have gotten in anyway.
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She doesn't know,  she's just spewing out ignorance. [/quote]

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