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It's just the regional IB center. Most students aren't interested in IB (compared to their home AP courses) because [b]the IB program is a lot less flexible, and not as advanced in STEM[/b]. Also, BCC has a full IB program, plus a ton of AP courses. 
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While there is a lot of real good information below in that post, I can't agree with the [b]STEM point[/b].

You can look here for the admission data:  
2023 https://moco360.media/2023/09/13/where-montgomery-county-high-school-graduates-are-going-to-college/
2024 https://moco360.media/2024/09/17/where-do-moco-students-attend-college/

They changed the format for 2024, making it much harder to search, but in 2023 Blair had a higher acceptance rate at MIT and CalTech (total 8 people went to those 2 schools from Blair), and RM a (notably) higher acceptance to Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech, Cornell, UMichigan, UC Berkeley, and Carnegie Mellon. 
(Ironically, RM also had a higher admission rate to UMCP, which may be a blip, but the school is actually in the top 20 of engineering schools in the nation).

You can also look at AP exam data. It's really hard to parse out the magnet programs from RM or Blair, but I recommend you look at this link for 2023: https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/data/LAR-charts/AP-Exam-by-Subject.html

The [b]flexibility point[/b] is true, but it's important to remember that it's not a universally good thing - some kids / parents prefer high flexibility that usually comes with a more variable quality of classes, some prefer a low-flexibility program with core classes that are polished to a high quality.

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I think this is the more interesting part of the story - # of county-wide acceptances.

Texas A&M 14
Stanford 9
Princeton 16
MIT 12
JHU 37
Harvard 4
Dartmouth 12
Cornell 58
Columbia 11
Carnegie Mellon 44
Cal Tech 8
Georgia Institute of Technology 41
Purdue 115
University of California, Berkeley 15
University of California, Davis 42
University of California, Irvine 41
University of California, Los Angeles 24
University of California, Riverside 4
University of California, San Diego 43
University of California, Santa Barbara 52
University of California, Santa Cruz 20
University of Michigan 96
Virginia Tech 312
Yale 11[/quote]

These are not countywide acceptances. The article includes 10 high schools of 26 in the county.[/quote]

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