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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, there's a small part of the entrance test where your kid has to rank his desire to do the magnet on a scale of 1 to 10. If he really wants this, it's important to put 10 (I think 10 is the highest, but it might be 1, so have him double check!!!). On the other hand, if you want this more than he does, this is his chance to put 1 and you'll never know the real reason he didn't get in. MoCo seems to view this as a sort of escape hatch for kids who are being pushed into the magnet against their will, while accepting the kids who want it most.[/quote]

My son and his best friend attended TP magnet and both applied to Blair magnet with similar GPAs (3.8+) and performed similarly well on the admission test (both boys scored above the median score of accepted students in each test category).  My son wasn't accepted but his friend was.  When trying to understand the different outcomes, the friend's mother told me that when she had picked the boys up from the testing site she heard my son say that he'd put down a 1 when told to write down their desire to attend Blair (with 1 being something like -- I'm only here because my parents are forcing me -- and 10 being something like I'll die if I don't go to Blair) and her son had laughed that he'd put down a 1 too but then added a zero . . .      [/quote]
is this question asked only for H/s magnet, or is it also asked for MS and ES?
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