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[quote=Anonymous]Blair has a magnet program, a school within a school, for kids who are gifted in math and science. It's hugely competitive to get into, it attracts the children of NIH scientists from all over the county, and the kids are usually doing math and science courses equivalent to second or third year university courses.  I think those are the kids who get into Ivies.

I've been an alumni interviewer for my former undergraduate school for a while, and I've represented them at college information nights etc.  Honestly, particularly if your daughter is aiming for a US university, I would try to get her classified as a sophomore.  The more time she has to build up her transcript with challenging courses, and explore extracurricular activities, preferably with leadership roles, the better.  A lot of people who transfer to a new secondary school get caught up in the number of credits  needed for graduation.  For a student preparing for university, credits needed for high school graduation aren't that relevant .  What universities care about is whether you have taken challenging courses (AP, IB etc) and excelled at them.  They want to see four years of English including AP English Lit, 4 years of math including Calculus etc.  Your daughter would be best served by making sure that she has time to take those challenging courses.

Top universities understand the Scottish Highers system.  I don't know what they will do with a transcript for someone who didn't complete the system.  However, if you think your daughter's marks have been translated incorrectly, you can certainly attach her Scottish transcript to her application and ask that her US and Scottish transcripts be evaluated separately.  I think they will be willing to do that.  They will have a lot more experience with that than Montgomery County.  In MC's defense, Scotland is a small country.  I would be surprised if MCPS got a transfer student from Scotland once every 5 years, so I'm not surprised that they don't have a good system for determining equivalence in place.  [/quote]

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