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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op if you are still reading, Wootton is the right answer. No comparison between two unless your kid is accepted into IB.[/quote]
please.  The vast majority of kids at RM are not in IB, [b]and they do fine.[/b]

But, yes, if you want a pressure cooker environment with no diversity, choose Wootton.[/quote]

What does "they do fine" mean? I know we all have different expectations for our kids. At least "get accepted to UMCP" fine? Most non-IB kids have stats high enough for UMCP?[/quote]
Yes. Believe it or not, there is a contingent of UMC kids (white and Asian too!) who opted not to do IB. They are taking AP classes and will do fine after graduation.[/quote]

I believe it. I mean I'd not all that interested in IB courses and would also prefer to focus on STEM.[/quote]

LOL. Read results coming out of this thread

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1108817.page[/quote]
? What does that have to do with anything? Trust me - I know white, UMC kids from RM who have gone on to UMD and other good schools. The non-IB kids ARE NOT all gang members. [/quote]

Real-estate agents try to spin this to inflate housing prices, but of course, RM is the same as any other MCPS HS. The same kid will do as well as they would anyplace else. The differences aren't the school but the home life and parents.[/quote]

Op here. Thanks to everyone for their feedback. Lots to think about. 
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Good luck. Select wisely. [/quote]
Yes, just read some of the stereotyping[b] some anti-RM posters[/b] have of a diverse school.   Too many of "those" kids.

That's the kind of folks your kids would be exposed to - people who stereotype an entire school and the families who go there based on what they hear about but probably have zero experience in.

No one said RM is perfect, but some anti-RM posters are seriously clueless about the student body at RM.[/quote]

People are not anti-RM. What you are seeing is people pushing back on posts that make non-IB RM like it's something special. It's not. Non IB RM is no different than any other MCPS HS (except W schools and BCC). They are all pretty f'ed.  [/quote]

This is what I am reading also.  Non-IB is nothing special.  [/quote]
No one said it was "special", just not the ganglandia that some are making it out to be.[/quote]

True but Wootton test scores are the same if not better than RM with an IB department. An IB that takes the smartest kids from all over the county.  [b] Which shows you that scores without IB would probably be similar to schools like Rockville and QO.  Not terrible, but I would prefer the Wootton area.[/b]  I also think they are the least likely to get overhauled with the 2 new high schools being built and rezoned.  Besides that Rio area, Wootton's neighborhoods are all petty much around the high school and far away from the other high schools.  I feel like RM has a chance to move to Crown or Gaithersburg and I would be leery about buying in that area because of it.

The other perk is that Wootton projected growth is level for the next 6 years.  RM projections are going up another 600 students over the next 6 years.  So obviously that means redistricting or a ton more portables on what is a pretty new school. [/quote]

If you have time and reasonable googling skills, you can estimate this. I have done it years ago (when SAT was based on 2400). It is not hard to calculate and it was not pretty. [/quote]
? ok, how would you do this?  You are making the assumption that the top scores are all for IB students, and I don't think that's true.[/quote]

find out class size, number of kids who took SAT, avg SAT score, number of IB kids, IB avg SAT score (and assume of IB kids took the exam which is a reasonable assumption). after that it's just simple math[/quote]

The issue with this is approach is there are 25% IB spots reserved for RM students, and more IB seats open up in 11/12 grade, excluding IB kids scores is like taking out all the top students from RM.
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OP's kid would be in regular RM though. [/quote]

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