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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'd choose Whitman.  Blair is a ridiculously large and over crowded school.  The few kids I know who went to CAP were smart, but ended up in meh colleges, for what it's worth. Not saying that's the norm, but getting a leg up in college placement should not figure into your decision to go there.  Being you live in the Whitman cluster, I think CAP would not be worth the hassle, since your home school is as good or better. [/quote]

Your personal anecdote aside, Blair has the most impressive admissions of any HS in the county. Go read the Bethesda Beat issue that shows the stats. There's really no comparison.[/quote]

Can you link the Bethesda Beat stats article, please [/quote]

They publish the admission stats for thee schools annually. Blair is always the top performer.  It's a great school but having two outstanding small magnets doesn't hurt.

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-magazine/september-october-2021/college-bound-6/[/quote]

The problem with this chart for Blair -- or for any other school -- is that there's no way to aggregate or disaggregate the data. If you have super-achieving kids applying to 20+ schools and getting into many of them -- well, that's one kid appearing as applied/admitted under multiple colleges. And what happens if you take the magnets out? No way to tell how the magnets skew the picture.

If you look at the "school at a glance" pages on MCPS's website, you can compare numbers like percentage of students taking the SAT and average SAT scores by school, county, and nationwide, % and # of graduates scoring 3 or higher on AP tests, and other data. The progress report cards are extremely outdated but you can compare (at least as of 2017) the cohort graduation rate as well.[/quote]

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