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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]No one else’s experience with college admissions has any bearing at all on your kid’s.[/b]

The median SAT score in the magnet is 1530. Every year they have dozens of National Merit Finalists. [/quote]

It is helpful to know 1) rough aggregate statistics 2) bios/examples of kids going to different colleges? Why? In order to understand the impact of going to SMCS vs. home school on college choices. [/quote]

I don't think it will impact college choices in the way that you think. Every kid I know who got in to the magnet and turned it down did really well from their home school. It's not a big sample size, just 3 kids over a couple years, but they did go to top tier, Ivy or Ivy-like schools.

The kids who turned it down saw more opportunities at their home school. At Blair they might have been one of 100 really smart kids but at their home school their counselor could write they were in the top 1-2 of their class and there was less competition for leadership. There are a lot of examples. Blair Robotics is really competitive but at your home school it might be much easier to be president.

The kids who are going to the top schools at Blair aren't going there because they are at Blair necessarily. I think the selection process captures a lot of highly motivated and smart kids. Emphasis on the highly motivated. Those kids might benefit from being at Blair and having access to the higher level classes but they are usually the type to do well anywhere. The exception being some kids who might do better socially in a program with other kids with their same interests and become happier and thereby doing better.[/quote]

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