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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please don't flame me for expressing an honest opinion.  RM IB is hard and the competition is high.  You must work hard and you do benefit from the experience---especially at a good university.

CAP was good but no longer has the excellence experienced a few years ago.  Assimilating with the regular school may be the cause but I don't know.  Sadly, it is not a rigorous program anymore.

If you look at the Blair magnet Intel prize winners you will notice that they are from outside the Blair catchment area.  They would do well anywhere and their projects seem to have little to do with Blair.  [/quote]

Agreed.

By the way - this is not the school that is producing these sci competition winners.  What they do is not part of their curriculum or even club.  In this area, students end up interning at NIH or similar places because their parents, relatives are researchers there - many papers they write are on obscure topics that their parents are working on.

Still - I will give credit that these are kids know before they get into HS - what their precise path will be for next 4 years. AND they do work their butts off  (especially the Blair SMACS kids).

Another thing is that Blair has lots of institutional knowledge on how to win these competitions, when to enter these, when to train, what to read. These guys train for Math and Sci competitions like athletes do in other schools.  If you have a strong SMACS kid - go to Blair....

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