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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Northern Virginia *doesn't* want to pay.[/quote]

Along similar lines, there are a lot of affluent but not super rich families with kids in the Blair magnet, who cannot send their kids to elite schools. A large percentage of the Blair magnet graduates go to University of Maryland College Park every year.

These statistics about who gets in where don't mean much if you take into account that some and maybe a lot of magnet (and CAP) students don't even apply to elite schools. My Blair magnet kid (1600 SAT, top 5% of class, straight A's throughout high school) did not apply to any schools we could not afford.[/quote]

USNWR considers UMD top 20 in math. Other state schools are ranked even higher. Who decides what schools are elite? Maybe a kid wants to go to Purdue because they can get a spectacular education and it's close to family.

Then we have to consider the other magnet at Blair and where those kids want to go, and the fact that there are a whole bunch of bright, ambitious kids not in the magnet program.[/quote]

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