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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Inherent disadvantage - perhaps - if they are looking to go to MIT - then the magnet kids will "likely" be the ones that take those slots.  The non-magnet kids still get into great schools - Amherst, Duke, UNC-Chapel Hill, etc. but they don't shine quite like the STEM kids who've gotten straight As and are finalists in the Intel competition.[/quote]

This is wrong. Very smart non-magnet kids with impressive matriculations. And even in the magnet the kids PP describes are very few. Most magnet kids are not in that category, and now even less with the new magnet formulation that picked up a lot of kids who did not go to TPMS. By far the most popular college destination for magnet kids is UMD.[/quote]
+1 I don’t know why many on dcum assume Blair magnet and W go to the top tier. Look at the data. Almost none get into the top tier—most go to UMD-type schools.[/quote]

Except the actual data that's published shows that both Blair and Richard Montgomery too far better than the W's in terms of elite admissions.[/quote]

Okay so I’m going to call your bluff.  Since when does MCPS list name and school attending after graduation?  Or even percentages who attend a place like UMD.  I’ve seen (sometimes) a noted student article on one student - but that’s it.  I don’t have dog in hunt.  [b]Disliked MCPS vibe for my kids so left it pre-pandemic.[/b]  [/quote]
Why are you even on this forum?[/quote]
Ruefulness. [/quote]

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