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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My daughter is in 8th grade. She wants to go to the IB program at RM. She enjoys english and history class but doesn't like math. She also really enjoys her foreign language and she skipped level 2 of the language. Her spring map r was a 262 and her fall was 253 (don't know what happened there). Her extracurriculars are okay (should have pushed her more lol). However, I have heard that this program is very stressful and has a lot of work. It is also very hard to get in. Do you think it is a good fit for her and what are her chances of gettting in? (I'm hoping for at least 70%). [/quote]

The chances are slim. These decisions are random. Even if your child is a great fit, I wouldn't count on it.[/quote]

Not random for HS criteria-based magnets: application/review/selection.

There have been modifications over the past few years to the application process that make the information available to reviewers more constrcted than before, in an attempt to limit bias.  From that perspective, it may appear more random.

The litmus/lottery approach currently applies to elementary and middle school criteria-based programs (CES, Humanities, Math/Science/CS).[/quote]

The criteria makes it random. 400 applicants appear comparable on paper so only way to distinguish is random.[/quote]

This feels like sour grapes. If you count the regional IB magnets, there are plenty of spaces for kids who are qualified and interested. Most kids accepted to RMIB are also [b]accepted to their "regional" IB program, which means a ton of spots often open up in the regional program.[/b] Now, you may or may not think that choice is valid or worth the commute, but it is a bona fide magnet program offering four years of cohorted classes and a full IB diploma option. [/quote]

There are no "regional" IB magnets, nor "spots" nor "acceptance" to them in MCPS.  RMIB is a county-wide by application IB program. If you happen to live in the DCC and neither Einstein nor Kennedy is your homeschool, you can go through the "choice" process and try to opt into those programs, but it is not an "apply/accept" process like RMIB. (I suppose you can say the DCC IB programs are "magnets" in the sense of "magnets" for "pull" integration, which was the original intent of the DCC - to create a pull method of racial integration instead of push integration method like bussing." For those students whose homeschool offers an IB anywhere in the county, these are simply opt in programs in whole or part. There is no apply/accept and no limitation on the number of "spots" in these non-RMIB programs; no one should be worrying about "getting into" these (except maybe in the DCC).

Unfortunately, there are some kids who can't do IB at all if their homeschool doesn't offer it. For example, kids from Whitman or WJ who want to do IB, can't apply to or transfer to BCC for that. It's RMIB or nothing for them.

Also, the non-RMIB programs do not offer 4 years of cohorted IB classes. You opt-in in 11th grade. [/quote]

Yes, there are in fact three regional IB magnets, at Kennedy, Springbrook, and Watkins Mill. They have the same application process as RMIB.[/quote]

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