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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What the title says. If colleges take only X number of students per school, will there be an advantage by going to a magnet (interest based or criteria based) in an overall poorly performing high school?

Lets say you are in the Wootton cluster and your kid wants to study CS in UMD- instead of going to Wootton's CS magnet programs which will be very competitive, would going to Rockville but doing the other non related courses in that magnet help - do colleges care  about what your focus was in high school before admitting to that program? [/quote]

Colleges don't care about your "focus" in high school. Colleges don't want you do college in high school. They want you to show you are capable at academics and community engagement.

If you want to study CS at UMD and are qualified for success in a magnet program, you're an auto admit so don't freak out 
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No.  I know some magnet students who did fairly well (1500 SAT) who were denied at UMD for CS.

My DC goes there for CS and was from a magnet, but not everyone who chose CS or engineering for that matter from their peer group  got into UMD.[/quote]

1500 SAT is below average in SMCS. The average is 1550 or so as far as I can recall. You are always compared to your peers.[/quote]

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