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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP 12:35 If your sole goal is college admissions, please don't apply to the magnet program.  It's not what it's about.  We understand that our kid would be at the tippy top student at a regular school- but maybe only average in a magnet program.

Sincerely RMIB Magnet Mom.[/quote]
Agree with this
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+1 if you want to play that game, you're better off being a big fish in a little pond. Go to a mediocre performing school, and outshine everyone, then apply to elite univ. They'd love to have you.[/quote]

So you’d rather do that in college?  Isn’t that the same thing people above are arguing?  Go to a magnet school, then a mediocre college and shine so some great grad school might take you?

I get you all need to convince yourselves of your noble motives in going through the magnet program but I don’t see some moral failing in considering what impact this has on your kids’ future options. We’ve looked hard at the magnet programs in MoCo - let me tell you something - they aren’t some gift from God.  Interesting to be sure but your arrogance at being a magnet parent is astounding. [/quote]
If anyone is arrogant here, it’s you with your “let me tell you something” and “mediocre college” with zero experience with the magnet or college admissions. They are giving you really good advice, and you should stop and just listen. 
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Really? I can’t get a straight answer - just platitudes.  And an attempt to paint people like me as some kind of impure mercenary who doesn’t believe in the nobility of the magnet program. Oh, and how their kids would be “tippy top” among the unwashed masses at a “regular” school. .

If your kid likes both the program and potentially wants to go to somewhere other than UMd what is the balancing act?  It’s not enough to be so pure of heart and motive which if you read is the only “really good advice” that’s been provided.

This isn’t some holy order they are joining. Kids may want the program AND the college choices. Figuring out if and how much you’re hurting the latter in favor of the former is a relevant concern, your sanctimonious blathering aside.   [/quote]
Yep. Can’t believe you ever dared to call someone else arrogant. 
Has your kid even been accepted?[/quote]

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