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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I seriously doubt Holton kids can survive RMIB program. It is incredibly hard. [/quote]

+1 and I'm a Hotlon parent.[/quote]

+2 ex Holton parent.  IB program is super rigourous.[/quote]

I am an IB diploma graduate. I don't understand why kids with an average 1400 SAT couldn't handle an IB program easily. Is there something extra hard about IB at RM?[/quote]

I don’t know but I think that 1400 would be a pretty low score for the RMIB program. Another thing to keep in mind when comparing the placement outcomes is that RMIB is economically very diverse.  They have a lot of kids coming from middle or working class including immigrant parents and first Gen college students — so not really the family connections and savvy of the typical holton student.

But OP should know that the public school issues are real. The kids are phenomenal, the program is rigorous and most of the teachers are really good.  But there will be fights in the hall.  There will be people doing drugs in the bathroom.  Your kid will have classes in portables.  Some bathrooms may be disgusting or inaccessible.  Some teachers will be checked out.  And school admin will have very little ability to change any of that.  If you’re going to spend 4 years upset about that, then you are better off at Holton.  On the upside, these kids learn to self advocate, hustle a little when they need to, and learn early that paths may not always be laid out smoothly in front of them.  Also, my kid has zero interest in things like designer clothing/shoes/fancy cars/etc.—-that’s just not a status thing at RM.[/quote]
1400 SAT for RMIB magnet students is pretty low.   DC would say that anything under 1520 is  not RMIB caliber.

And yea, there are a lot of immigrant families in RMIB, and most are not private school wealthy. DC and their friends think nothing of shopping at the goodwill for clothes.[/quote]

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