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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid is in the magnet and I can honestly tell you that they enjoy it.  DC loves hanging out with the cohort of super smart kids who make learning a fun and challenging experience.  We have no regrets.

I am not the PP, but responding to that post, I am guessing that they are dissing the lottery policy that is diluting the ES and MS magnets.  Thankfully, as of now, the county is not interfering with the selection policy of the HS magnet programs.[/quote]

Not only is there no lottery policy for high school but the rising [b]9th graders also didn’t go through the lottery.[/b][/quote]

I thought they started lottery for MS magnet 4 years ago, the first lottery cohort are in already 10th grade now, how’s the rising 9th grader not part of the lottery??[/quote]

No, current 9th graders took Cogat in fall 2020 and were notified they got into the magnet in Jan 2020. No lottery.[/quote]

There used to have a magnet admission test + cogat, then they switched to Cogat +  lottery 4 years ago, looks like it changed again 2 years ago to just grade +  lottery.  The quality of magnets student went down a lot since 4 years ago, I heard they had problem finding qualified kids for the math team.. [/quote]

This is wrong. There was no lottery until 2021 (current 7th graders).

To answer the OP’s question, my Blair magnet kid likes it a lot. DC is intense and highly motivated, but not competitive, and has found like minded kids both in and out of the magnet. [/quote]

The only reason they started the lottery of the top 15% was that NWEA refused to allow them to administer the CogAT remotely during the deadly pandemic so they had no choice but to eliminate it. However, with the trend away from these standardized tests like SAT because they confer an advantage to affluent families it may be for the best.[/quote]

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