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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you want your daughter to be crushed by competition in HS, you should have had her apply to the top magnet schools in MD or VA. Even a top high school like Whitman - the top 10% of kids who are competing for Ivy admissions are cut-throat competitive. It is more of a sink or swim environment.[/quote]

Eh, I have one at one of the listed privates and one in SMCS in MCPS.  They're just different types of crushing.  The magnet has very intense science and math, but everything outside the program is easy and usually requires little effort.  The challenge is largely the speed at which new concepts are introduced and then built upon in the magnet classes.

At the private, all of the core classes and have periods of intensity and it's primarily the overlap of that intensity that is tough - when you have a paper, a lab report, and two tests that require actual studying all in the same week (plus other reading/daily assignments), it becomes a lot.  In the magnet, you're concentrating on 2-3 classes very intensely; in the private, you're covering 6.

Thinking about the two going to college, I have no concern with my private school student (who plans to major in engineering) academically.  I have some concern about the SMCS student's ability to write college-level essays, but that may be unfounded.  That child never has issues in English so I don't see that work.

All the privates listed by OP are great.  Pick the one that is right for your family based on co-ed/single sex, commute, community, whatever.  You can probably find ego crushing intensity at all of them if that's what you want.[/quote]
I doubt you have a kid in MCPS SMCS. [/quote]

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