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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is kind of ironic that this county's parents fight so hard to get into magnet high schools, have endless battles over admissions standards, which test to use or not, and [b]then realize four years later that they've put themselves into a worse position than if they'd just let their kid be a great student at their home school.[/b]

Only do the magnet if it has something your kid can't get at the neighborhood school. Don't do it for "the cohort" [/quote]

Not at all.  My DC wanted and needed the Blair magnet classes, and excelled in them.  It was a fantastic high school experience he would never have had anywhere else.

"Worse position"?  In what way?[/quote]

When 30-50 IB graduates from RMIB all apply to the same Ivies with the same high stats and ECs. All are qualified but there is no way Yale is going to take all of them but reject a similar cohort from another IB school in Deleware or Michigan[/quote]
yes, this is part of the problem, and why I started the thread.  They're all applying to the same top colleges, but those colleges don't want more than one or two from the same cohort. But, they are also super high achieving kids. So, it's disappointing for the ones that don't win the lottery. Yes, there are plenty of great schools to go around, but when you are in a tight knit cohort, it still is a very disappointing for those kids.

But, I do think that they will all go on to do well as they are all high achievers and used to rigor.[/quote]

You know, no admissions officer has confirmed this urban myth, don’t you? Apparently parents have claimed this for decades but there isn’t much evidence to prove it.[/quote]

There is evidence that they want a broad mix of geography, but no evidence that they scrutinize at that level.  In other words, they may only want a certain number of kids from MCPS, but they aren't looking at specific school or program and splicing that way.[/quote]

Following up here, I haven't seen this linked so far in this post:  https://www2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/siteassets/schools/high-schools/r-w/rmhs/ib/ib-colleges-20-22.pdf

If somebody really wants to do the work, they can compare this to the overall acceptance list on Bethesda Magazine or wherever.  I would bet you'd find that the overall proportion of students admitted to top schools from the RMIB is [b]significantly[/b] higher than that of non-magnets--thus indicating that they aren't "capped", or at least that any theoretical cap is much higher than for a non-magnet.

For example, 5 of ~130 were admitted to Harvard in 2022.  What is the proportion at nonmagnets?

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I think you will find that 2023 numbers look very different.[/quote]
and to add 2022 grads were heavily impacted by the pandemic.  I think 2020 numbers are a better reflection of the actual numbers.

But, it's interesting to see that almost 1/3 to 1/2 go to UMDCP.[/quote]

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