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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The word "average" stood out in your original post to me because the "average" magnet student represents probably 85-90 percent of the students. On the low end there are kids getting multiple Cs and there are usually only a few each year. The high end - like the genius kid who is in consideration for the Math Olympiad - is even more rare. There may be 1 or 2 of them in your child's grade or possibly none. If your child is "average" they are almost definitely highly gifted or PG and an incredibly hard worker and all those "average" magnet students do very well in college admissions if that's your concern.[/quote]

Math Olympiad is not the only academic competition. There are physics Olympiad, chemistry Olympiad, computing Olympiad, biology Olympiad, science Olympiad, etc. Not to mention other non academic competitions like musical instruments.[/quote]

Yes, mine didn't do any stem related competitions except Exploravision which they all do in FoT (which I'm now grateful for -- it was her only stem award)! She did a variety of performing arts activities and had national awards in 2 disciplines and regional in 2 others. It was a nice balance to the curriculum, she had no interest in more stem after school. She actually had no stem ECs at all -- lots of arts, sport, job, volunteer and a club.[/quote]

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