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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]RM is obviously a great school with much to offer but if you can afford Whitman, you should move there. Whitman is a much better crowd. Nothing against RM and its crowd but there is a reason why the put the IB there and not at Whitman or Churchill.[/quote]

[b]You take the IB program out of RM and it falls below schools like Quince Orchard which have better neighborhoods, communities and more school spirit.  [/quote][/b]

This actually isn't true.  Show me the math that proves this.  The SAT scores are actually right on par with QO when you remove IB (at least this was the case when I ran the numbers last year...it's in a thread somewhere buried in DCUM).[/quote]

For what it's worth, here is the post I was referring to above.  It's the rankings based on SAT score, with IB removed from RM.  (Someone had posted the average SAT score of the IB students (130 kids, avg of 2160), which was then used to derive the non-IB average score.)

When I do the math, I get that RM's non-magnet kid's score is 1643. So now, using the At A Glance sheets, let's compare the 1643 score to that of the other MoCo schools, to see where RM would fall if it didn't have the IB magnet. Oh look, QO and RM are next in line, right after the "W" schools, BCC, Poolesville and Damascus. So, as we can see, RM hardly becomes a "bad" school: (note, in the list below there are other schools with magnets, like Blair, which I did not bother to recalculate without the magnet kids...this was merely to analyze RM's non-magnet standings.)

Whitman: 1900 
Poolesville: 1891 
WC: 1838 
Wootton: 1836 
WJ: 1747 
Blair: 1729 
BCC: 1711 
Damascus: 1700 
QO: 1651 
RM: 1643 
Magruder: 1598 
Sherwood: 1588 
Northwest: 1577 
Rockville: 1569 
Watkins Mill: 1566 
Blake: 1555 
Einstein: 1544 
Clarksburg: 1531 
Springbrook: 1495 
Seneca Valley: 1477 
Paint Branch: 1466 
Gaithersburg: 1442 
Northwood: 1440 
Kennedy: 1404 
Wheaton: 1383

For what it's worth, the national average is 1497....so overall, MoCo is doing pretty darn well. [/quote]

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