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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]On SV - this is not a real medical program - in the sense that it's not going to make acceptance into any medical school easier.[/b] It more gets you ready to be a medical tech. What it *would* be good for is gauging interest in the subject (as would Gaithersburg's program) which is really valuable in and of itself. And of course would help you with getting decently paid work straight out of high school- in case you want to work through college.

The rankings are a little bit misleading, because they really focus on average SAT score and number of APs completed. Being a school where 2/3 are magnet kids, would of course make Poolesville stand out. But if you look down the list, you see other high SES schools like Whitman and Churchill, and River Hill in Howard County high on the list.

My kid will be at Poolesville, and she chose humanities over the other two programs, because she wants to go to law school. We also don't have a long commute. But I think anyone going to any magnet school assuming it's going to improve your chances of getting into a selective college needs to have their expectations reset. That's just not going to happen. But the cohort idea is nice, and the smaller school suits some kids better (definitely better for my kid).

Also - and this may not matter to you if your kid is science oriented, but the middle school English/humanities program was terrible. I mean it's a complete embarrassment, and literally making our children stupider by the day. I regret not sending my kid to MLK because those kids were definitely reading harder text and doing more complicated research. Meanwhile, there's a fair bit of differentiation available in math, at most middle schools. I did not want my kid to take honors English for all in 9th and 10th again which is what it would have been at the home school. I really think as a whole reading and writing is the weak spot in the secondary school curriculum in mcps. Meanwhile you have 15-20% of the class taking Multivariate Calc in 12th at even our home school!

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I never implied that a high school medical program would make getting accepted to medical school easier. Anyone who thinks this is naive. [/quote]

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