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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The magnet program is basically a tool to help upper society pick out a few middle class kids and give them a chance to get into schools where they can then meet the wealthy and make a case for their value.

This quote is particularly amusing knowing that about 1/2 the Blair magnet kids end up at UMCP!  I wonder if the parents who think that Whittman is better know that SMAC classes don't take county assessments or the new RQA's.  The teachers create their own tests and have flexibility in the classroom.  This alone is priceless, IMO.[/quote]

not all the magnet kids are truly elite academically, just the potential to be so. It is a refining process, that the 100 or so best test takers and add in legit rigor and then skim again. The UMCP either didn't make the net level cut or parents couldn't afford to help with the next step to a private school. [/quote]
It is not just about taking a test.  They also consider essays (you submit essays as part of the application and you write one during the test).  They don't just want high scoring kids (they do), they also want kids with a spark.  Yes they are identifying potential and not everyone is off the charts amazing but [b]you are totally off base if you think that many of the kids who end up at UMCP are there because they could not "make the cut" at a top university.  [/b][/quote]

Agree.  PP, you are completely out of touch.  Most affluent families neither qualify for need-based aid, nor can pay $70k per year per kid for college.  That is why so many magnet kids do not even apply to top privates, and go to UMCP.  [/quote]

+1000, Just went through this process with DS and the above statement is absolutely true. If you are at the lower end of the economic spectrum you get aid and if you are at the top you can just write the check with no problem. The rest of us in-between basically get screwed. [/quote]

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