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[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]

It is designed to look that way, because they gathered top kids from schools and a lot of them in one place. No other places do that so if you compare TJ to either regular high schools or partial magnets
then what is the big deal? Of course it better be something right?

But from the perspective of a child, not only it does not matter because you can get to a great Ivy from any good high school just the same or better because each Ivy limits amount of kids accepted from one school.
So if you apply to MIT and so does other 300 kids from TJ, do you thin they all get in? Think again.
But if 3 kids apply from a High School, 3 kids get in. 
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