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Reply to "Montgomery Blair HS- Why are the college acceptance rates so terrible? "
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[quote=Anonymous]3:50 has some good points, I think. First of all, lots of kids at Blair are not well off, so if the kid is going to college (not a given), UMD is doable whereas a private university/Ivy school would not be. Another thing to consider is that magnet kids are applying to MIT and CalTech, not necessarily to Ivies. The acceptances for the CAP program were very good last spring - a good number of Ivies in the list sent out by the coordinator. I'm going to venture that acceptances for the math/science magnet kids were good as well, although I don't know. Sometimes I wonder whether colleges cherry pick a few kids from the Blair magnet and CAP programs, and likewise they take a few kids each from Churchill, Whitman and Wooten et cetera. If Yale takes 2-5 kids from each of these schools (I'm making this up, but for argument's sake), this is a small percentage of the 800 kids in a Blair class, but a larger percent of a smaller school.[/quote]
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