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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]If your kid loves academic competitions, blair magnet provides many opportunities and peers.
However, no or very little improvement on their college admissions if the students can get same states and EC achievement.

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Hard to reconcile this with the actual data that shows Blair has significantly better college admissions than other MCPS schools.[/quote]

Where can this data be found?[/quote]

Look at the link posted earlier in this thread for RMIB, or google the college edition of Bethesda Beat.[/quote]

Here is the list from Bethesda magazine - I just was looking at it and it starts on page 68. It's hard to glean exactly hat is happening though because they don't separate the magnets from the rest of the school. And Blair is the biggest high school in MD so many of the applied and or accepted could be non-magnet kids.  I wish they had a nice lost like the RMIB program does.

https://issuu.com/bethesdamagazine/docs/1sept-oct_22_digital_edition

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Also Blair and RMIB are very diverse schools, and home school kids can take magnet classes. So a highperforming URM who appeals to top schools might not necessarily be in the magnet programs, which are ~90% Asian.[/quote]

I dont know about RMIB, Blair Smac is about 50-60% Asian.  Never 90%.  I had two kids went through the magnet.[/quote]

At the admitted students night this year for incoming 9th grade, the attendees were more than 80 percent Asian. Perhaps it will shake out differently with acceptances but it seems likely to be higher than 50-60%.[/quote]

Maybe more Asian families showed up that night. That's not something Asian families would miss. [/quote]

Last time I checked the actual demographics, Blair SMCS was 65% Asian. [/quote]

I wasn’t talking about the demographics of current students but of accepted students.[/quote]

It's been mostly stable the past few years, but it is a race-blind process so hard to predict. There are more Asian applicants than any other demographic. The numbers of applicants and admits by demographic cohort were posted here a month or two ago for the past couple of years. Although there are some differences, admissions seem to mostly just reflect interest.[/quote]

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