Blair does very well in selective college acceptances too, if the stats from the annual Bethesda mag table are any indication. No clue if that's all magnet or mostly magnet kids or proportional representation from all programs. Whatever the case, it's a school that obviously is known and respected where it matters, for good reason. (I'm not in the Blair district fwiw, I'm in BCC but would love to see my kids wind up in the science magnet program although doubt they will!)

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Why not post some awards non-magnet kids get. I know they get awards. It's like the magnet kids are the chosen ones. You should give a shout out to the rest.

PP, if you think that the non-magnet kids should get a shout out too, then by all means, you should give them a shout out! That would be great. Start a thread on awards won by non-magnet kids at Blair!

(I am not the OP, by the way.)

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Anonymous wrote:How many are not in the magnet program?

Good grief. Blair students in the magnet program are still Blair students -- yes?

Why do people do this?

So they are all in the magnet program, why do people want to hide that information?

Who's hiding information? Saying "Blair HS - so many 2014 Intel Science finalists. Impressed." instead of "Blair HS MAGNET PROGRAM - so many 2014 Intel Science finalists. Impressed." does not constitute hiding information, in my opinion.

Why is it so important to you that everybody always specify whether or not the student was in the magnet program?

Why not post some awards non-magnet kids get. I know they get awards. It's like the magnet kids are the chosen ones. You should give a shout out to the rest.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How many are not in the magnet program?

Good grief. Blair students in the magnet program are still Blair students -- yes?

Why do people do this?

So they are all in the magnet program, why do people want to hide that information?

Who's hiding information? Saying "Blair HS - so many 2014 Intel Science finalists. Impressed." instead of "Blair HS MAGNET PROGRAM - so many 2014 Intel Science finalists. Impressed." does not constitute hiding information, in my opinion.

Why is it so important to you that everybody always specify whether or not the student was in the magnet program?

Holy shit- look at the topics. Amazing.

http://student.societyforscience.org/intel-sts-2014-finalists

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Anonymous wrote:How many are not in the magnet program?

Good grief. Blair students in the magnet program are still Blair students -- yes?

Why do people do this?

So they are all in the magnet program, why do people want to hide that information?

What type of students attend private vs.public schools?

What type of students attend magnet public schools or public schools heavily vested in AP courses vs. what type of students attend private schools?

Herein lies the answer to your question.

The results will be the same for USAMO, IMO, Intel, SIEMENS, RSI, Computer competition, and every USA Olympiad competition that exists. From time to time a few outlier private school students will sneak into the mix. But this is the exception not the rule over the last decade.

* and by "pursue", I mean, "have a serious science program in place and highly qualified faculty to advise." I didn't mean lobbying or something distasteful to diminish the kids' achievement.

Anonymous wrote:I think it is 3. Still, excellent.

Oops. Three of the 40 are from Blair and one from Frederick. And a whole ton of semifinalists from other maryland schools.

Something is going well over there (I live in DC).

Question - do private high schools generally not pursue this award agressively? Scanning the finalist list for the whole country, all the schools I recognize in other states are all public schools.

Anonymous wrote:How many are not in the magnet program?

Good grief. Blair students in the magnet program are still Blair students -- yes?

Why do people do this?

How many are not in the magnet program?

Md had 20 semi finalists. Add Whitman to your list.

That is great...and at a public school too! Just goes to show.

I think it is 3. Still, excellent.

This year Blair produced four -- FOUR -- of the 40 Intel finalists chosen from every single high school in the US. I didn't do a table but I think that the showing of 10% of the overall total is better than Stuyvesant and every other US school.

Maryland in general did well when taking into account all the semifinalisists too -- there was another finalist from Fredrick and some semifinalists from Blair , Churchill, Richard Montgomery, Urbana, Baltimore and poolesville.

Virginia and DC had no finalists this year. Thomas Jefferson did have a couple of semifinalists.