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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What the title says. If colleges take only X number of students per school, will there be an advantage by going to a magnet (interest based or criteria based) in an overall poorly performing high school?

Lets say you are in the Wootton cluster and your kid wants to study CS in UMD- instead of going to Wootton's CS magnet programs which will be very competitive, would going to Rockville but doing the other non related courses in that magnet help - do colleges care  about what your focus was in high school before admitting to that program? [/quote]

Colleges don't care about your "focus" in high school. Colleges don't want you do college in high school. They want you to show you are capable at academics and community engagement.

If you want to study CS at UMD and are qualified for success in a magnet program, you're an auto admit so don't freak out 
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No.  I know some magnet students who did fairly well (1500 SAT) who were denied at UMD for CS.

My DC goes there for CS and was from a magnet, but not everyone who chose CS or engineering for that matter from their peer group  got into UMD.[/quote]

That's because uninformed high schoolers / parents are hyper fixated on undergrad CS major, not realizing that their goal of "get rich in tech" doesn't depend on an undergrad CS major at all, and in fact it's probably better to major in something else and learn software as an interdisciplinary skill. [/quote]

Surprise, some kids want CS.  How is that hard to believe?  It's not about getting rich as those who get rich are usually tech sales, but doing what you enjoy.  It's not better to major in something else and learn software on your own as the skill set is very different.  You must not be in tech.[/quote]

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