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[quote=Anonymous]AGAIN I see we have this myth that will not die that Blair HS, beyond its two magnet programs, is filled with nothing but low-achievers. So I am reposting the following from an old thread. This is a rundown of college destinations of the REGULAR student body in Blair's Class of 2018. Regular as in non-CAP, non-magnet...

There is this persistent myth about Blair that once you remove all the SMAC and CAP kids, you're just left with MS-13 members and dead-enders. You know what you're actually left with at Blair once you remove the magnet kids? A very respectable public high school full of bright, ambitious kids who go on to college, to big public universities and SLACs, to community college and even Top 10 schools.

Below is a sampling of college destinations among the REGULAR student body (non-CAP, non-SMAC) in the Class of 2018 at Blair. A very diverse list for a very diverse high school.

In addition to dozens of kids going to all Maryland public universities, including 35 to the flagship in College Park, and well over 100 kids going on to Montgomery College, 2018 Blair Academies (i.e. regular) graduates are continuing their educations at...

Yale, Cornell, Northwestern, UC Santa Barbara, Southern Cal, Case Western Reserve, Rensselaer Polytechnic, NYU, Boston U, Syracuse, Northeastern, U of Texas, U of Illinois, U of Vermont, U of Florida, U of Colorado, U of South Florida, U of South Carolina, U of Missouri, West Virginia, U of Kentucky, Penn State, Colorado State, Oberlin, Sewanee, Warren Wilson, Tulane, Temple, DePaul, Santa Clara, The New School, Grinnell, Fordham, St. John’s Univ, Ithaca, Hampshire, Smith, Goucher, Loyola Maryland, Dickinson, Occidental, American, Catholic, Dalhousie University, Spelman, Howard, Hampton, Clark Atlanta, North Carolina Central, Loyola New Orleans, CalArts, Baldwin Wallace, Appalachian State, Barry, Mount St. Mary’s, Winthrop, Lycoming, Virginia Commonwealth, Savannah College of Art & Design, Xavier, Alma College, George Mason, Seattle Univ, Columbia College of Chicago, Slippery Rock, Montclair State, U of West Kentucky, Hofstra, Stevenson, AMDA, Maryland Institute College of Art

Entire Class of 2018 destinations can be found in this issue: 
https://issuu.com/silverchipsonline/docs/combinedsilverchipsmay2018forissuu [/quote]

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