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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][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know of at least 2 magnet kids with high gpa’s/test scores, at least one is a National Merit Semi, and rejected from UMD this year.  Anyone who thinks UMD is a slam dunk (especially for STEM) is delusional. [/quote]

Then honestly, what do they need to do? My kid (8th grade) is going to the magnet next year. I don't want her to have a nervous breakdown because it's that difficult to even get into UMD.

I literally don't get it. They are already taking a very difficult course load. I have heard don't even bother releasing your Sat scores until it's &gt; 1500. Everyone gets straight A's, or else. We don't have the money for private.

Honestly this whole thread is just making me depressed. My kid is smart but she's not going to win any national awards. [/quote]

She need to not go to UMD.  [b]They only admit a few kids from Blair, [/b]so it’s super tough because you are competing against other magnet kids.  If she applies to any other school, she will do fine.  [/quote]
Thi is completely wrong. UMD admits over 100 kids from Blair every year [/quote]

But there are 750 students and 200 from
magnet. The non-magnet class also gets UMD offers.  I assume majority of magnet students would apply for UMD, even as a safety school. That would mean many magnet students get rejected. [/quote]

Last year UMD CP accepted 157 of 367 Blair applicants, and 71 enrolled.

Many magnet kids don't bother applying to UMD as a safety, because they have ED1, or rich parents (as most magnet parents are rich) happy to pay for our of state schools.

https://moco360.media/2023/09/13/where-montgomery-county-high-school-graduates-are-going-to-college/[/quote]

About 40% of magnet grads have gone to UMD in recent years because their families are working class/MD and do not have the money to send them to more expensive private colleges. Most magnet parents aren't rich. What a ridiculous thing to say. [/quote]

40% not rich means most are rich. Potomac and Bethesda dominate magnet attendance.

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Not DC's experience. Most of the kids are from DCC with a noticeable group from Potomac, many fewer from Bethesda. I think once they got rid of teacher recs and made the application process easier they got a more diverse group of applicants in many dimensions including geography.[/quote]

The manget directory suggests this notion that the magnet is mostly W kids is a myth. The largest feeder is actually Blair itself. That was also the case at TPMS.[/quote]
It is a myth created by the W parents. A few years ago, MCPS distributed a report showing how many students each HS lost/sent to the magnets. The W didn't lose that many to the magnets, with Wootton having lost the most and Whitman the least. If I remember correctly, Whitman only lost 8 students to the magnets.[/quote]

There is only 100 slots. 8 from a single school is a lot. [/quote]
I see reading comprehension is not your forte.  I said magnets,  with a "s". It included all the magnets i.e SMCS,  RMIB,  CAP etc...[/quote]

It's funny DC is an in-boundary 8th grader at TPMS, and there are around 8 neighborhood kids going to SMCS next year.[/quote]

That’s a big change then. Typically the TKPK kids go to CAP. Very few in the magnet.[/quote]
Do you even know what you're talking about? Do you even live in the county?
TPMS (not TKPK) always sends the most kids to SMCS, while Eastern sends most to CAP.[/quote]

Yes, I know exactly what I’m talking about and apparently you don’t. I didn’t say TPMS (the school) I said TKPK (the city). That was very clear from the language I used and also even more so if you bothered to follow the specific thread I was responding to (re in bound TPMS kids).  It’s very clear that TKPK families send their kids to CAP and not SMCS in large numbers. If you actually lived there you’d know that and wouldn’t be lecturing me.[/quote]

Very clear.[/quote]

It's clear what they're saying.  May have even been true 20 years ago just not recently.[/quote]

That's what I've observed as well.[/quote]

Current 9th grade has very few kids from Takoma Park (the area) in the magnet. Most kids are from elsewhere, large contingent from Rockville and Gaithersburg, but also parts of  Silver Spring. Large contingent from TPMS, but not local to Takoma Park. Don’t know about 20 years ago, or even last year but that’s how it is this year.

Lots and lots of Takoma Park 9th graders in CAP though.[/quote]

Of my neighbors in TP, I know several families with kids in SMCS but only one in CAP.  [/quote]

Yes, you keep repeating that. Your experience isn’t borne out by the facts.[/quote]

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