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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look, I don't know what the deal with the UMd admissions requirements is, but I also really don't think it is as dire as PP says it is, based on how students at other MCPS high schools do on the same metric.

So, for BCC that number is 47%

For Blair it is 31%

For WJ it is 50%

For Whitman it is 58%.

Are folks prepared to argue that more than half of the kids who graduate from BCC are not college-ready?

Amost certainly not. Which means this metric is flawed. There is absolutely room for Blair (and every other MCPS HS) to do better by its most vulnerable kids, but we need to move off that particular metric because it clearly doesn't mean what folks want it to mean. [/quote]

Remember CAP and SMAC include lots of DCC kids.  You are skimming off many of the top performers..

Think for a min that 31% for Blair is about 1000 kids 
700 or so kids are magnet or cap mostly from OOB, most of those are part of the 31%
That leaves 300 or so kids out of the remaining 2500 students which means 12% of the general population leave qualified for an decent State school

That is Kennedy/ Einstein level performance. Mediocre at best
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While the dig at the end is petty, the break out of kids is startling and concerning for the non-magnet kids. Any parents care to address those? Overblown ?[/quote][/quote]

Remember CAP and SMAC include lots of DCC kids. You are skimming off many of the top performers.. [/quote]

Sure lots of DCC kids in CAP and SMAC but that still leaves 12% of the 2500 non-magnet qualified for UMD. That is 88% of the normal kids not making the cut.  Using your same argument the top performers are also taken out of the Whitman’s that still manage 58%.

Feel free to counter the school is still good but it is the kids that struggle and couldn’t be helped . I am not sure how one can reconcile that a fridge full of old food doesn’t stink even if 12% doesn’t [/quote]

Like others have said, there's something funky about that statistic. You can look on mdreportcard and see that 75.40% of Blair graduates enrolled in college within 12 months.[/quote]

[b]Most of those are most likely open access community college .[/b] Also think about it 75% of graduates,  the 31% counts all the kids who don't graduate so it is a little apples to oranges [/quote]

:roll: [/quote]

Montgomery college is absolutely the number one destination for Blair graduates [/quote]
And????
But Blair sends more students to the Ivies than any W school. [/quote]

And more to prison, but you don’t really know that. The self reported metic is accepted, not attending. It should also be note most of those Ivy’s are magnet kids who most likely live inbounds to a W. Most of the merit scholars are[/quote]

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