Reply to Blair Magnet - geographical differences in acceptance rates?

Forum Index » Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)

Reply to "Blair Magnet - geographical differences in acceptance rates?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So there are actually 500 students in the magnet program?  400 that competed and 100 that were all local admits?  The official MCPS letter sent to college students made it sound as if the 25 local set-asides were the same as the 100 selected from across the County.  Wow.  Shameful.[/quote]

So, you clearly don't know what you're talking about,  and yet you spew your nonsense as if you were an expert. Now, that is shameful.

My kid was in the TPMS local set, then to Blair (also admitted to rmib, cap, both wheaton programs), now at Ivy. So, suck it on the locals-bashing. That whole political connections theory is ridiculous.  Most of us have no connections, and many are immigrants. There are many intelligent,  vibrant thinkers in the local catchment.  Most of them have less outside enrichment (aops, Hopkins cty, Dr. Li etc) than their west county peers. There is no sense that anyone in the program didn't compete or didn't deserve to be there.

Let's correct some of the false premises here (and elsewhere):
Blair magnet has a letter that students can include with admissions.  Blair does not set aside seats for locals. Blairchas roughly 100 magnet students per year. Blair also does not admit be test alone. There are many intelligent,  intellectually curious kids in this county. We need more magnet spots/programs and less bashing the kids fortunate enough to gain access.[/quote]

Yes, there is NO set aside for Blair. The HS magnet program has roughly 400 kids or would if nobody dropped out....[/quote]
RMIB,  however, does have a number of seats set aside for in-bounds students.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics