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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have 2 Wheaton grads, 1 from each program. Their programs were each 30 students. I don’t know how many applied. Students can take 2 ap’s, Physics and APUSH in 9th grade. It is a DCC only program.

My grads were in the class of 23 and 21. 
They are terrific programs if your students like the content. [b]The programs limit your electives so that is unfortunate.[/b][/quote]

My kid got waitlisted for the magnet and wound up doing the academy. The experience seems pretty similar. He still took MVC, tons of engineering classes with the same teachers as the magnet (Bates and ONeil, etc?), I think. But he didn't have to take ALL of the magnet classes (he skipped the AP Comp Sci and AP Chem classes for ex) so he got to take other AP classes. It was nice to have the flexibility. If given the choice, however, he probably would have liked to have done the magnet to be with that peer cohort.

I think his STEM education has been excellent. He got five on all of his STEM APs. The writing instruction was pretty lacking, despite taking AP English, AP Social Sciences, etc. Not sure any other MCPS writing instruction is any better, however.
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