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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]WITHOUT A HOOK, landed at public schools (UVA, UMich, California schools) and could not really break through to the T-20 coming from MCPS....is there just too much competition at these public schools and do privates have better placement?  This is just my observation--have you seen the same?[/quote]

No. But even my post is anecdata. I mean at our public magnet school, every kid is high stat. I know kids that got into places like CMU, MIT, UT@Austin, Rice, UCLA but not really Harvard.  So sucks majorly for them.  Without a hook, you don't land anywhere. Especially if Asian-American.

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Huh, MIT "sucks majorly"  Really???[/quote]
My magnet kid is going to UMD but has friends going to colleges listed above and I’m impressed (plus Harvard). I’m impressed with all of them.[/quote]

I am one year out of date, but Montgomery Blair routinely sends kids to Princeton, Stanford, Yale, MIT, Brown, etc. I should point out that the kids that get into these places are often Asian, and they are truly impressive. The math/science/computer science magnet kids are usually going to pick a national university because that's where you go when you are at their level in terms of math and science (don't come here to say that you can get a really good math/science education at a liberal arts school - you can!, but you can't expect a liberal arts school to be appropriate for kids who are already done with two years of college math - they run out of courses). A lot of these kids pick a strategy of top 10 and UMD, because UMD is so good in the areas they are interested in, that it doesn't make sense to pay more unless it's an MIT, etc. Then, of course, lots of them are "shut out" because they went with lottery schools and a safety or two. That's not because they couldn't make it into the top thirty. [/quote]

Exactly right.

Blair Magnet admissions look solid this year so far.  Fewer to MIT than usual, which hopefully means a few more MCPS non-magnet kids got those slots.

Seems like fellow parents in MCPS general education also report very good results.  This is the year when essays were important.  Good grades and scores get the candidate a read, a consideration, that is all.  Once the candidate is being considered, it no longer matters if they had 1500, 1550, or 1600 on their SAT, it's "good enough" for admission.  Then it's all about the essay and the extracurriculars.  Students who had top scores, solid extracurriculars, and good essays, were admitted with excellent selections.

Fellow magnet parent.[/quote]

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