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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It looks like Richard Montgomery did better than the other schools in terms of admission to top schools (e.g. Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, Duke, etc.).  Wootton did terribly.  Anyone know why this is?  [/quote]

Because colleges discriminate against white and asians, which is a high percentage of Wootton.

IB and Magnet programs will get into great schools.  So will schools that have diversity, hence BCC better than Whitman.

Every college has a numbers game it needs to fill based on sex, color, where you live in the county, etc....   We have friends that moved to North Dakota the last two years during Covid. Definitely helped with college admissions being a minority (not black) in a state full of whites that barely apply to colleges out of the area.  It was win during Covid but I can't imagine doing that now.  It's crazy playing the college game.  Just go to JUCO for 2 years, get A's, and get into any college you want.

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🙄 RM is 24% Asian.[/quote]

Actually JW MS has 14% Asians - only school that feeds into RM.  So you can see how many asians are actually in the IB program to bring the entire student body up to 24%

Meanwhile Robert Frost MS has 42% Asians and Wootton has 36% Asians.  So clearly the top Asian performers left for magnets.

sit down please [/quote]

What are you going on about? That was in response to the PP saying Asians and whites were being discriminated against, which is why Wootton does poorly. Per that logic, RM should do badly too.[/quote]
A high % of RMIB kids end up at UMD, including my own.  They all apply to the same T10 schools, and as expected, many get rejected.  The choices seem to be T10 or UMD, and even the T10 is only possible with lots of merit since most of the T10 are crazy expensive.

DC had only two T10 schools they really wanted - both are $80K/yr.  We are a donut family so DC did not apply ED. These schools also don't offer merit aid.

If they got into one of the two, we would've had to seriously think about whether the cost was worth it.  Sometimes, it's not worth it, so many, including my own, go to UMD honors with merit.[/quote]
Another magnet family here.   We had the same considerations and my kid will be with yours at UMD honors with merit.  We could have afforded one of these T10 schools but avoided having to weigh this choice to pay hundreds of thousands extra.   Kid ended up on waitlist for top choices. [/quote]

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