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[quote=Anonymous]Interesting about Magruder.

Didn't believe the previous comment at first.  But looked at the report on page 7:
http://montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/sharedaccountability/reports/2017/2016_AP_IB_Exams%20Prin.%20Memo.pdf

And looked up their enrollment numbers on Glance.  Where QO has 1904 total students (440 12th graders) and Magruder 1513 (319 12th graders).

At QO there were more AP exams taken with 2157 but only 60.5% earning a three or higher.  Whereas Magruder only had about 807 AP exams taken but a higher pass rate at 66.4%.

So it kind of seems like a combination of QO having students try to take as many exams as possible and at Magruder maybe they limit the students that can take it or the classes.

There was a ranking that used to base the rankings by how many AP exams were taken by the school divided by their 12th grade class.  So in that type of method QO probably would've been ranked higher.  But I think it might've been either Newsweek or US News and it looks like they're taking into account state assessments and diversity factors now too.

Not just benefits internally but I've heard several W school parents and students complain about the bias against them.  Where sometimes schools will not want to pick too many students from the same schools, including taking previous years admissions into account.  So if there are two students who are pretty much equivalent, one from a W school and the other not, the admissions would usually favor the student who isn't from the W school.  (It could just be the rationalization they give themselves when they or their student didn't get into the school they wanted to but knew someone else that did from another school)[/quote]

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