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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does MCPS have a school similar to TJ in Virginia?  What school would that be?[/quote]
No. They have magnet programs embedded in different schools. The top three in demand are Blair, Richard Montgomery, and Poolesville. But there are many more. 
https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/curriculum/specialprograms/high/ [/quote]

Are they any good?  Is it a difficult process to get in?  I had a foster child this year who went to an engineering magnet  middle school and I was shocked at how easy her classes were and how bad her teachers were.  [/quote]
Blair magnet is a rough equivalent of TJ. [b]Probably, slightly less rigorous but equally difficult to get in.[/b] RM magnet is humanities so can't be compared to TJ. 
Don't know much about Poolesville.[/quote]
No, Blair is definitely more difficult to get in and is honestly a bit more rigorous than TJ[/quote]

Although smaller Blair has a higher SAT average, Intel scholars, NMSF, members of USA Math & Physics Olympiads and beats the stuffing out of TJ on It's Academic just for fun.[/quote]

The smaller is the key part. Blair picks the roughly 100 great students out of a similar sized county and TJ picks hundreds every year. They get to dip a lower in the pool due to being lager. That will always dilute your scores. The same effect why Blair has one of the lower SAT scores in the county despite having the program embedded to boost scores and perceptions. The larger school simply drowns out the statistics but one can speculate how low they would rank without importing those almost 100 kids assuming a few make it in form the IB naturally.  While Takoma middle puts more kids in the program than any other middle, most of those kids are out of bounds too in the middle magnet except for the 25 set aside seats which were created because local kids were getting squeezed out of the local program by higher testing W kids.

This is where all the prepping accusations come from (because how dare a kids read a book prior to a test, cheaters) and why the East county wants to consider local peer group for admissions to tip the scales in the local favor. Funny part it is a quiet self own to all people who claim to have bought cheaper houses to get a more “better” peer group but turn around and want considerations for not having better peers for their kids. :roll: [/quote]

Yes Blair and PHS pick 100 top stem students from a similar sized county whereas TJ picks 500 students from 4 counties. [/quote]

The largest demographic cohort common to Blair and West county schools has an SAT average around 50 points higher than any W. This is ironic since the magnet also is largely Asian and has little impact on this.  It is funny that when you dig a little deeper you discover that things aren't always what some people would like you to believe.[/quote]

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