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[b]I am rooting for the poor kids from Rockville [/b]and Gaithersburg who now have a chance they never dreamed they would.  Maybe MCPS just created 20 more doctors and engineers than we would have had before. The just special snowflakes in Bethesda will do just fine no matter what middle school they go to.[/quote]

Funny you should say that, because one kid I know from our ES - in Rockville, mind you - who got into TPMS is a son of Chinese immigrants, a PhD and a doctor turned RN here. They were prepping him for the HGC first (he was waitlisted) and then for the magnet test at a Dr-Li-type Saturday school. He scored the coveted 99%, and got in, probably because he didn't attend a CES.

And the funniest thing is, with that much parental pressure, that child, while no 'Bethesda special snowflake", would have done just fine no matter what middle school he would have gone to.

Flame away.[/quote]

yup. and our HHI is $400K and we’re in gaithersburg, but you know — poor kids from gaithersburg and rockville, right?[/quote]

Relatedly, we're in Silver Spring and our home school did great in this cycle for middle school magnet admissions. Some of our HGC kids also got in, but home school did fine by its own rights. So, maybe the answer is for all the CS folks to move to the East Side. [/quote]

What’s the home school, if you don’t mind sharing?  Just curious because I haven’t yet heard of any schools doing all that well, including DCC schools like my own with a high FARMS rate,, but obviously there have to be some.[/quote]

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