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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid is in the magnet and I can honestly tell you that they enjoy it.  DC loves hanging out with the cohort of super smart kids who make learning a fun and challenging experience.  We have no regrets.

I am not the PP, but responding to that post, I am guessing that they are dissing the lottery policy that is diluting the ES and MS magnets.  Thankfully, as of now, the county is not interfering with the selection policy of the HS magnet programs.[/quote]

Not only is there no lottery policy for high school but the rising [b]9th graders also didn’t go through the lottery.[/b][/quote]

I thought they started lottery for MS magnet 4 years ago, the first lottery cohort are in already 10th grade now, how’s the rising 9th grader not part of the lottery??[/quote]

No, current 9th graders took Cogat in fall 2020 and were notified they got into the magnet in Jan 2020. No lottery.[/quote]

There used to have a magnet admission test + cogat, then they switched to Cogat +  lottery 4 years ago, looks like it changed again 2 years ago to just grade +  lottery.  The quality of magnets student went down a lot since 4 years ago, I heard they had problem finding qualified kids for the math team.. [/quote]

This is wrong. There was no lottery until 2021 (current 7th graders).

To answer the OP’s question, my Blair magnet kid likes it a lot. DC is intense and highly motivated, but not competitive, and has found like minded kids both in and out of the magnet. [/quote]
+1.
There was no lottery for current 8th graders. DC is in a magnet and I clearly remember how it played out. First, the county sent a letter home saying that your child is 'identified' as magnet material and is invited to sit for the test. You either implicitly agreed or marked the box saying, no, thanks. The kids then took the test during school hours (at DC's school it was easily half the grade) and then in February we got results by mail. There was no lottery, however, there were appeals and waitlists.[/quote]

Except that we were notified in mid January and the pool identifying kids wasn’t that they were magnet material, it was anyone who was not behind. That is almost everyone at many schools.[/quote]

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