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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All the Blair parents claiming to be put off by RMIB focus on college admissions are full of it. They'd be on this thread crowing if Blair's EA/ED results were amazing. Like the TJ parents gushing about all the MIT early admits. [/quote]

I was one of thise abd was really put off by the heavy name dropping and one upmanship towards Blair. (Again,  hoping that got better with new admin). Sure, we care about college admission opportunities,  but at that point, we really wanted to hear about the program. Our kid's shadow day was also a bit of a bust like another PP (I'm sure those things are hit/miss). But, in the end, it was course opportunities and proximity that tipped the scales to Blair, and I'm sure the same could be said of students who chose RM. Or Wheaton.  My 2nd chose Wheaton over Blair for more hands-on approach (and also got into 1st choice T10).  I think it's just a couple parents who wants to have a battle for #1. #1 program is the one that resonates the best with your kids (and works with transportation).[/quote]

I'm another parent whose child chose Blair over RMIB after the shadow day. In my child's case, proximity was a huge factor but student attitude was another.

I've told this story here before and been accused of lying, but my child is multi-racial but white-presenting in the sense that most people would guess "Italian or Greek?" before guessing multi-racial. However, they still identify as multi-racial even if the genetic lottery spit out a lighter-skinned kid. At shadow day, the RMIB kids were using racialized insults about Blair's broader population to try to get my child to choose RMIB. I'm sure it all felt like light-hearted teasing to the white and Asian RMIB kids, but to my child it felt like a clear message that they wouldn't be welcome in the IB program. 
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I'm sorry that happened to your kid.

And it is regrettable that so many people left from shadow day and/or the admitted students presentation.

But those things cannot be relied on to be an accurate representation of the experience of students actually in the program.  I haven't seen anyone here with experience in the RMIB program say any of those things.  [/quote]

Sadly it may be because they successfully drove away the kids they didn't want to have as classmates? I hope not[/quote]

You're suggesting that there is a concerted and organized effort by the students that participate in shadow day to drive away a certain type of student?[/quote]

No. I am suggesting that whomever this student was shadowing that day made them feel like they would be frozen out socially once they got there. One bad bunch on one day does not make for a concerted and organized effort. It just means that one kid (two kids?) was unkind.[/quote]

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