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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you live outside of the cachement areas, you have very little chance of getting accepted. So don't place your hopes on getting in if that's the case. Especially if your child gets good grades, their home middle school will not want to lose your kid to one of the magnets.[/quote]

NP. So the lottery isn’t randomized?[/quote]

It is, but they prioritize in-bound kids so the odds for out-of-bound kids are just way worse. I think I saw someone say you have like a 10-15% chance of getting it if you're out-of-bounds.[/quote]

You misunderstand how this works. There are 80 seats per grade for out of consortium students at each of these 3 middle schools.

OP, our experience has been that most out of consortium kids leave after 6th grade. Their families don't realize exactly how poor the school is or how watered down some of the magnet courses are. For example, [b]BOE many Loeiderman kids make it into Honors and Junior All State Band/Orchestra/chorus? [[/b]/quote]

I can't speak for instrumental (where achievement is really a function of private study, not school), but the high-performing numbers for choral/vocal are growing every year.  The choral director is amazing, and so is the drama program.  We were _not_ impressed by a lot of what we saw at the high-school open houses - in many cases Loiederman was as good or better.

And no, the magnet courses are not watered down, and neither is the mathematics.  And no, the out-of-bounds kids don't all leave.  The ones we knew who left went back to their home schools for friend reasons.  One of the great things about the MSMC is that you _can_ leave if the fit isn't right.  You're maintaining options all the way through. [/quote]

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