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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC is going to magnet program at MCPS.  Most of DCs peers want to get into medicine, law, engineering etc. While Ivies are affordable for some, most will choose UMD for their undergrad.  They will get into top schools for graduate and other professional qualification after that.  They will also get a full ride at UMD for their undergrad.  These are smart kids who are looking closely at the majors rather than how the schools are ranked.

DC will graduate with upwards of 15 APs, great SAT and GPA, extra curricular activities, hundred of SSL hours. However if DC decides to go for ethnic studies at Harvard...I am not paying for anything. 
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Hi AP Frank's Mom! 
Read The Overachievers or google if you don't get the reference here.[/quote]

Totally get the reference :-) and my DC's home high school is the lowest ranked HS in MCPS, so not a Whitman parent.  Don't worry, not pushing DC into anything. Magnet was DC's idea not ours, and this crazy workload? DC is pretty much following what other kids are doing in the magnet program.   I read that book and I call DC the "Stealth Overachiever" ...See? Totally got the reference.  The school does not offer these APs that this kid has decided to do...AP in my opinion is a waste of time and effort, cause I believe that kids should do the college courses in college.

And I am also ok if my kid chooses Montgomery college. UMD and other instate colleges...I am all for it.  If I was not the mother,  I would have wondered where these genes came from. Seriously![/quote]

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