Anonymous
Post 04/27/2026 09:53     Subject: Blair CAPS school profile for college
Anonymous wrote:Isn't it CAP, not CAPS?


C A P S Caps Caps Caps!
Anonymous
Post 04/27/2026 09:52     Subject: Blair CAPS school profile for college
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Such an advantage for the CAPS kids! Magnet kids have a chart which shows GPA and SAT distribution just with other magnet kids. 1/2 the class has 4.0 UW and the median SAT is 1515.

Everyone assumes that the strong T20 acceptances are magnet kids but I'd guess a fair number are the CAPS kids too (and other strong Blair students).


CAP kids absolutely do well in college admissions, with a few Ivies every year and a lot of WASP-type SLACs. I have a current senior whose extracurriculars mean they have a lot of friends in both programs and outcomes are pretty good this year all around.


Are these kids posting on Instagram? Not that many for the 800-900 size of the class.


Only about 100 kids per year are in CAP
Anonymous
Post 04/27/2026 08:11     Subject: Blair CAPS school profile for college
I think Blair SMCS is the only magnet program in MCPS with a separate profile and it does not help kids at all except those towards the top of the distribution. And yes CAP students have had great results this year, better than what we had heard from previous years.
Anonymous
Post 04/26/2026 10:19     Subject: Blair CAPS school profile for college
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Such an advantage for the CAPS kids! Magnet kids have a chart which shows GPA and SAT distribution just with other magnet kids. 1/2 the class has 4.0 UW and the median SAT is 1515.

Everyone assumes that the strong T20 acceptances are magnet kids but I'd guess a fair number are the CAPS kids too (and other strong Blair students).



Strong Blair Kids... ha. Want to bet T20 drops to only a couple once Blair stops importing kids


I know a CAP kid this year going to an Ivy.
Anonymous
Post 04/24/2026 14:08     Subject: Blair CAPS school profile for college
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Such an advantage for the CAPS kids! Magnet kids have a chart which shows GPA and SAT distribution just with other magnet kids. 1/2 the class has 4.0 UW and the median SAT is 1515.

Everyone assumes that the strong T20 acceptances are magnet kids but I'd guess a fair number are the CAPS kids too (and other strong Blair students).


CAP kids absolutely do well in college admissions, with a few Ivies every year and a lot of WASP-type SLACs. I have a current senior whose extracurriculars mean they have a lot of friends in both programs and outcomes are pretty good this year all around.


Are these kids posting on Instagram? Not that many for the 800-900 size of the class.
Anonymous
Post 04/24/2026 09:37     Subject: Blair CAPS school profile for college
Anonymous wrote:Such an advantage for the CAPS kids! Magnet kids have a chart which shows GPA and SAT distribution just with other magnet kids. 1/2 the class has 4.0 UW and the median SAT is 1515.

Everyone assumes that the strong T20 acceptances are magnet kids but I'd guess a fair number are the CAPS kids too (and other strong Blair students).


CAP kids absolutely do well in college admissions, with a few Ivies every year and a lot of WASP-type SLACs. I have a current senior whose extracurriculars mean they have a lot of friends in both programs and outcomes are pretty good this year all around.
Anonymous
Post 04/24/2026 09:31     Subject: Blair CAPS school profile for college
Anonymous wrote:Such an advantage for the CAPS kids! Magnet kids have a chart which shows GPA and SAT distribution just with other magnet kids. 1/2 the class has 4.0 UW and the median SAT is 1515.

Everyone assumes that the strong T20 acceptances are magnet kids but I'd guess a fair number are the CAPS kids too (and other strong Blair students).



Strong Blair Kids... ha. Want to bet T20 drops to only a couple once Blair stops importing kids
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2026 18:25     Subject: Blair CAPS school profile for college
Isn't it CAP, not CAPS?
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2026 18:19     Subject: Blair CAPS school profile for college
Such an advantage for the CAPS kids! Magnet kids have a chart which shows GPA and SAT distribution just with other magnet kids. 1/2 the class has 4.0 UW and the median SAT is 1515.

Everyone assumes that the strong T20 acceptances are magnet kids but I'd guess a fair number are the CAPS kids too (and other strong Blair students).
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2026 17:50     Subject: Blair CAPS school profile for college
CAP doesn't need a special profile because the magnet part is in the electives, not displacing the regular 5 core academic subject tracks at Blair.
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2026 12:53     Subject: Blair CAPS school profile for college
Anonymous wrote:There is not a separate profile for Blair CAP (and most schools do not have separate profiles for magnet programs).


Blair magnet parent here. There is a separate profile for the magnet kids. Do you know for sure that there isn’t one for the CAP kids?
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2026 12:14     Subject: Blair CAPS school profile for college
Sorry - typo "hole vs "whole"
Anonymous
Post 04/21/2026 22:09     Subject: Blair CAPS school profile for college
There is not a separate profile for Blair CAP (and most schools do not have separate profiles for magnet programs).
Anonymous
Post 04/21/2026 21:53     Subject: Blair CAPS school profile for college
Can you ask your school's College and Career counselor (or some variation of that title)?
Anonymous
Post 04/21/2026 17:46     Subject: Blair CAPS school profile for college
I can't find it online - can someone link it here? They have one for the school as a hole as well as for the SMCS but not for the CAPS program itself.