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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've always thought of magnets as NEGATIVES for college admission.  Colleges compare you with others at the same school.  No university wants to admit 50-100 from the same school, no matter how good the school.

Yes, more magnet kids get in to top schools, but that's because magnets have the best and brightest students in the county.  If their admissions procedures are at all reasonable (and I think they are), then I would expect almost ALL magnet kids who apply to top colleges to get in.  That doesn't happen.  [/quote]
OP here. Yes, agree.  And yes, I realize that being in a magnet should be about the student needing that challenge, but for college admissions, [b]it's clear being in a magnet can work against a high achieving student at a magnet[/b].[/quote]

Goodness OP, factors that go into admissions are a matrix.  It isn't that simple.  Sure, it CAN work against someone to be in a magnet if it means that grades, ECs, mental health, etc. suffer.  But if they don't, it is generally an advantage.  Though of course some would say that it is better to excel at a school that is likely to have less applicants to the target schools....

But if you are going to paint with an extremely broad brush, "it's clear" that being at a magnet is better than not being at a magnet.

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I don't know.. as a PP stated, a student is competing with the same kids in the same school/program.   [b]A high achieving kid at a lower ranked HS would do better in college admissions than one in a higher ranked HS and being one of a dozen kids with similar stats.[/b]

Big fish, little pond and all that.

I'm not trying to discourage people from sending their kids to magnets. I'm just noticing that admissions for magnet students isn't what I thought they'd be.  There's a discussion about this also in the AAP forum about TJ.  That's what made me start to think about this.[/quote]

a kid who spends 4 years at a school w/ limited rigor vs the same kid who spends 4 years at a magnet. Those two are not equal. [/quote]

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