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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just a quick note, the blair magnet, like the other programs is full of high, middle and lower kids …. Many are on different levels (3 levels) of math etc…..[/quote]

This isn’t really true. There are two levels for virtually all kids in math. Some take functions and others take precalc in 9th. Functions basically accelerates then one more semester in math. You can also skip a semester in comp sci. Sure there might be one or two still taking geometry (or even algebra!) or conversely in analysis (calculus) in 9th, but that’s not the case for the vast majority of kids.

Before my kid attended I had this impression that the magnet was genius level kids all winning international competitions. Truly there are a couple who are truly brilliant each year, a couple who are simply in the wrong place and should never have been selected and the vast majority - 90 percent or more - are very smart kids, mostly roughly the same ability level. The ones that are both very smart and motivated/hard working are what the selection process is looking for.[/quote]

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