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[quote=Anonymous]I have a child who had to choose between Blair SMAC and CAP a couple of years ago.  They were about as “non-STEM” as you could get.  They chose CAP and I think that was the right decision, despite everyone on this board saying you’ve got to be an idiot to pass up a SMAC spot and they would never amount to anything if they chose CAP.

How did they even get picked?  Probably high cogat scores, great recommendations from MS science and math teachers, maybe the magnet wanted to round out their program.  They’ve taken AP math and science classes while at CAP and found them very fast paced and did not enjoy the classes.  So I’m glad they didn’t do SMAC.

You know your kid better than the magnet coordinators who selected your kid.  We think ours made the right decision.  I guess you could always send your kid to SMAC and let them go back to their home school if that doesn’t work out, but a lot of kids have a hard time with that decision/adjustment afterwards.  Again, you know your kid and should make the decision based on their interests and abilities, not what DCUM says on this forum.  [/quote]

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