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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also, Blair booster, by your metric Stuyvesant beats Blair because it’s had more Intel winners and finalists. [/quote]
LOL 
Are you blind or what?
Stuy has had 189 semi-finalists and 22 finalists 
Blair  has had 202 semi-finalists and 40 finalists.

Blair beats Stuy hands down, and remember with less magnet students.

See folks, facts are hard for some to swallow. [/quote]

Ok, but what do you have beyond that one competition?

Also, it’s “fewer.” [/quote]
Math and physics olympiads 
Robotics 
Or Siemens, which by the way, Blair was the grand and final winner of this competition this year. 
Just to name a few...[/quote]

Oh, you mean the physics Olympiad where Poolesville won a gold medal?[/quote]
Poolesville HS is a whole school Magnet. I believe roughly 3/4 of the students are test in Magnet students so the average SAT scores, AP completion rates etc (which is what the US news rankings rely heavily on) are very high and this is probably the main reason it is ranked as the best high school in Maryland. It is a great school with wonderful Magnet programs (science, humanities and global ecology) and a very strong, high achieving student body. On all those scores it outperforms Blair as a whole and RMIB as a whole since these are larger, more diverse schools with Magnet programs. The majority of students in Blair and RMIB are not Magnet. In my opinion, this is one of the best attributes of Blair and RMIB as it makes for a diverse student body and a more varied high school experience but it no doubt also means lower SAT scores and AP completion rates for the schools as a whole. 
What you/someone who sounds like you, are saying though is that Poolesville SMAC is a more high performing and more nationally recognized science magnet program and that is not the case by any objective metric ( scientific awards, average SAT scores, percentage of Magnet students who are NMSF perhaps even college acceptances etc.,). Just be patient!  Poolesville is a younger program and I am sure it will just go from strength to strength in the coming years. They are not rival programs but rather sibling programs. [/quote]

I didn't say Poolesville is better than Blair. I said it's roughly equivalent to Blair, Stuy, and TJ.

Other posters then said Poolesville is worse than Blair, and one denigrated Poolesville's student body by saying "WTF is the student body it's even pulling from." They're the ones who really tried to drive home the idea that Blair is better. It's indicative of a general attitude on this board that downcounty schools are better than upcounty schools, even when (in the case of Poolesville and Blair) they offer the same SMAC program. There's this idea on this board that upcounty kids are not as smart and upcounty parents are not as invested in their kids' educations. It's offensive.[/quote]

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