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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC will be in 9th grade in a W high school. Did not make it to Blair SMAC magnet. Talking to others I get a feeling that very few (2 or 3) students from MS made it to Blair though MS is one of the very good schools, with so many bright kids. Why is it that the screening committee would prefer to select a student from non w school area over the one from w school  with former having equal or lesser scores?  Why is this assumption made that a student from silver spring would benefit more from Blair magnet than the one who would go to Churchill or Walter Johnson or Wooten. [/quote]

OP, you are basically saying this:

1. My child, in one of the middle schools in Bethesda or Potomac, was not accepted to the Blair SMAC magnet.
2. Only a few children in that middle school were accepted.
3. There are a lot of smart children in that middle school.
4. Therefore the Blair magnet admissions are biased against children from middle schools in Bethesda or Potomac.[/quote]

Plus, many or most Whitman parents think Whitman is so good that it doesn't make sense to send their kid to Blair.[/quote]

+2  Here's the thing folks may not know about Silver Spring, Kensington, Takoma Park, and other places on the eastern side of the county - there are A TON of college professors, NIH and other government scientists, public and private school teachers, etc.  We care about our children's education as much as you do.  We help our kids achieve their potential as much as you do.

Your kids are not smarter or more motivated by virtue of attending a "W" school.   You just need to accept that your child, like many other kids, was beaten fair and square.  There's no conspiracy.  Very few kids make the cut, and yours didn't.  Be glad you have a good program to fall back on. [/quote]

I agree completely. And I am a parent of kids at Whitman. I'd even say that it may be a tad easier to gain admission via W feeder schools be ause not as many kids apply to Blair due to the long commute and/or perceived equivalency of the home high school. But the cadre of student is high in the easterncand western parts of the sending schools. [/quote]

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