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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What the hell is Blair?  Some garbage MD thing?[/quote]
lol... a top STEM magnet program in MoCo, where the kids out perform TJ kids.[/quote]

So, 400 STEM magnet students subsumed within a chaotic 2,900-student school located at the eastern edge of Silver Spring, halfway between Wheaton and Langley Park, as opposed to a thriving and recently renovated STEM-only magnet with nearly 1800 students that is consistently ranked the nation's top high school.

You can kind of see why the Blair poster is so insecure.[/quote]
PP here.. my kids don't even go to Blair.  I wish they could get in.  But they sure do beat TJ kids in many areas.  I'm sure if I lived in NoVa, I'd be happy if my kids got into TJ, too. However, I don't want to live in VA.[/quote]

Thomas Jefferson is one of the top five high schools in the country. Not the COUNTY, the country. As in USA. Blair isn't even sniffing this list. You can cherry pick every little fractal of data you want, it won't make it true.[/quote]
On paper only.
These rankings are based on SAT/tests scores.
As said before, TJ scores (and many other schools) will always be higher than Blair because TJ is an all selective, all magnet school while Blair scores consist of not only the magnet program (about 400 students) but the whole school population (about 2900 students) with a diverse ethnic,  social, economic backgrounds population.

But when it comes to real competition, Blair outshines, outperforms TJ:
more Intel/Regeneron Science finalists. (more than any other school in the country)
more US physics Olympiads
more percentage of NMSF, etc...
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Again - cherry pick all the little factoids you want. Blair is not better than Thomas Jefferson. I wish it was. It is not. I live in MD, and even to me this smells like a lot of insecure Blair folks sweating any inference they may ...just ...not ...be ...the very best. Blair is good. Accept that, and be happy. [/quote]

Again- it's just stating facts...
Blair  magnet outshines, and outperforms TJ in STEM competitions. Period. 
Accept that and be happy that TJ, at least, beat the whole Blair (not the magnet) in SAT/test score. Oh yeah, they do a hell of a job when it comes to taking tests.[/quote]

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