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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Have two students at BCC now and the post above largely reflects our experience.  BCC is more diverse, location is much better for the students and academics seem similar.  Have one child in IB and for her, it is ideal.   [/quote]

Academics are not similar in terms of test results, graduations rates and many other measurable metrics but fell free to claim they are.  I will give you it is unclear how much of that disparity is the token amount of low income students bused in from Silver Spring but it should be noted BCC is statistically behind other schools that are actually located in Silver Spring and have a much higher percentage of Silver Spring kids.  Whitman is superior in just about every metric but if you boil it down to like for like experiences, I am sure a wealthy driven student would be fine at both. Here is a link to recent SAT results where BCC finished 8th even against schools with higher FARMS rates and Whitman as always finished number 1 [b]even over the highly touted Magnet schools.[/b]  Whitman is doing something right.

[url]http://www.bethesdamagazine.com/Bethesda-Beat/2015/Schools-Highest-SAT-Scores/1/[/url][/quote]

RMIB magnet kids avg SAT is almost 350 pts higher than Whitman. You don't want to go there. [/quote]

Does that mean that the rest of RM kids are really dumb to pull the averages down to the point where the school barely cracked the Top 5 for the county? Or are you stating that when you compare the few smartest kids in RM to an average of almost 2000 kids that it makes few look smarter? I am sure if you took the top couple of scores from Whitman they would do just fine if not beat any RM or Blair magnet scores. What we are talking about isn't how a school treats it's best students but rather the entire student body. [/quote]

I would rather have the smartest kids form RM & Blair than Whitman.  They have a lot more to offer than an entitled kid with no sense of the real world.  [/quote]

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