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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP here: the reason I am confused is that her reading scores were so-so at best, and her math scores, while not crazy outliers, were top 1-2%. So I am surprised that if she didn’t qualify for Blair with great math scores, she qualified for IB. [/quote]

SMACS is more desired (competitive / selective) than IB, by supply and demand. Many students at highly resourced schools and families, where most of the qualified students are, prefer non-IB to IB for the flexibility in the AP course selection, and for the college credit friendliness. And there are several local IB / partial-IB programs to absorb students.

But SMACS has a lot of courses and labs and clubs you can't get anywhere else, even at the other academically desirable W schools. 
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DP. I don't know about that. RM is highly desired and competitive, and many resourced families w/ highly qualified students want a program that emphasizes humanities and stem. Our kid did end up at Blair mostly for transportation, but also because of the math track, so we did find some of the restraints of IB hard. It's like it attracted my kid as a well rounded kid but was hard to do all the things she wanted to do. It's still an amazing and highly sought after program. Perhaps with more talk about Kennedy and Einstein IB, the demand isn't quite as high as it was when me kid applied....[/quote]

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