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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The thing you have to think about is that MoCo magnets are competitive.  A 99%/140 IQ student has about a 50% chance of getting in if she can do those numbers on the admissions test.  Obviously, I am just guessing at the odds.  The point is that if she hasn't been doing that well in her current school, it might be hard for her teachers to give her the type of recommendation needed to get in. [b] Further, the test to get in is somewhat stressful, especially given that she is kind of on the bubble.[/b]  There are more than 156,000 students and something like 12,000 kids per year and only 150 Math and 150 English slots.  I guess you could think of it as 300 slots if she was willing to do either program but at least on the HS level lots of kids get into both.

If she did get in, the kids would certainly "get" her but they are still kids and it is still a roll of the dice as to if she would find the right group of friends.  There is only so much the staff and administration can do at that point.[/quote]

What is on the bubble supposed to mean?[/quote]

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