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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Many of our kids got waitlisted or not accepted who would have done well and they are doing great in regular or other programs.   Look at the curriculum.   It was a huge turnoff for us as it did not all for many electives.  [/quote]

Can you clarify your last sentence? Not sure what it means.[/quote]

I don't know what the original poster meant, but for our DD, one of reasons she left her magnet program was  the required magnet courses left her with exactly zero personally-chosen electives until the last semester of her senior year, and getting even that little bit of freedom required summer school to knock out health. Not sure if all the magnets are that intensive with the required courses, but it ended up being a much bigger turn off for her than she initially imagined.[/quote]

This, if your child is into music, arts or other things, they will not have any choice electives to take classes in this etchings because of the required classes.  It's also very specific classes so if your child is looking for something specific like computer science, this isn't the program to do that in.  They also take an extra class as freshman and get out later than regular school, so if your child is in outside activities that may be an issue as well.[/quote]

My kid is already in SMCS. They have two electives to pick in freshman year. [/quote]

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