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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Magnet and non magent students 
Is UMD one of the 10 universities Blair graduates are accepted to and attend? What other colleges do they attend?[/quote]

Blair SMCS students are top feeders to MIT, CMU, UC Berkeley, Cornell, Georgia Tech, JHU, UMich and UIUC traditionally. Typically 70%+ SMCS students will use UMD as their safe schools. [b]That's not going to be the case in the future. For example, none of the 11 MIT offers from the latest graduation class came from a DCC student.[/b] [/quote]

You are so full of shit.

1. There are plenty of smart DCC kids in the magnet (my own kid is one of them) — in fact many kids in the magnet have Blair as their home school. So quit promoting this BS.

2. There will be FIVE more graduating classes until the proposed changes go into effect (all 4 current grades of high school plus current 8th graders), so whatever changes take place will take FIVE years to show up in terms of university admissions.

3. The proposals do not include limiting admission to the DCC but creating new regions so denigrating the DCC is just BS. [/quote]

I’m just stating facts. Facts are just facts. I’m not saying anywhere that SMCS doesn’t have Blair students. Of course it does. But none of the 11 MIT offers went to DCC students. In the past 3 years there were a total of 25 MIT offers. You can ask around and see how many were actually offered to DCC students? At most 1-2. By kicking W students back Region 4 will NOT give your bright kid more chance to get an elite offer. It will only water down the program as the majority of the top performers are gone. [/quote]

Oh my gosh please. Maybe the families don’t think MIT is affordable if they aren’t from wealthy Whitman. Don’t over assume. People have the smallest worldviews where they assume everyone’s priorities and privileges are identical to theirs and as a result anyone who doesn’t make the same decisions as they do are obviously inferior.[/quote]

Absolutely. My own Blair magnet kid didn’t apply to MIT because it’s not in our budget. Could he have got in? Maybe. Blair is our home school. MIT admissions aren’t a proxy for who is the best.[/quote]

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