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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your theory doesn't hold up, OP.

Take a look at the data. Wooton and Walter Johnson are among the top high schools for # of kids sent to magnet programs.
http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/info/choice/Appendix-B-Program-data-tables.pdf

Churchill also, although not technically a "W" school.

The only one that doesn't send a lot of kids to the magnets is Whitman and from what I've heard from talking to parents it's because Whitman is so good that why bother applying elsewhere. The commute is also terrible to Blair from that part of Bethesda.

There was a book about top Whitman students a few years ago and one kid went to Blair for a year and then his parents pulled him out because they thought Whitman would be better. He ended up going to Harvard so it sounds like it worked out for them.

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Thank you for providing hard facts to respond to OP's question.
It looks like there are 44 kids from Wooton, 17 kids from WJohnson, 23 from Winston Churchill and 9 from Whitman opting to enroll in magnet programs.  
There are a total of 374 students opting to enroll from 22 high schools (an average of 17 kids per high school).  The average for the four high schools (Wooton, Winston Churchill, WJ and Whitman) is 23 per school.  So it looks like these schools are well represented in the magnet programs.
OP do you know for sure that your child's magnet test results were well above the median scores for accepted students?  [/quote]

Interesting that only 6 students from Blair attend a magnet since they of all people are geographically close. [/quote]

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