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Last year's median score per Coordinator was 285.

[quote=Anonymous]OP - the main data points that the SMCS selection committee gets nowadays is just MAP-M and courses+grades. They are just looking for students very accelerated in math. You don’t need all the extras to get accepted or to be successful.

20 years ago, the magnets were intended to serve students who didn’t have access to enough advanced programming at their home school. Today, all HS have advanced courses and there are a variety of special programs at many high schools that students from other clusters can attend. For many, the focus of getting into SMCS is misplaced because there are other opportunities that will serve kids equally well.[/quote]

The median admitted Blair SMACS student MAP is not “very accelerated”.  It’s approximately the level of  “got an A in Algebra” (fall 8th grade).  And half are below median.[/quote]

Agree my kids were scoring above the median SMACS before ever taking Algebra when they were in 6th grade AIM. I often wonder how they would've done if they had the option to take AIM in 5th like the WPES students.[/quote]

What is this magical median number?[/quote][/quote][/quote]

The number the magnet coordinator shared for admitted students was 280 not 285. The median for the applicant pool was 255.[/quote]

That's odd since the coordinator just told me recently that it was 285 too.[/quote]

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