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Anonymous wrote:The only thing TJ is third on is a national ranking of high schools where RM and Blair are ranked 193rd and 500th, respectively.

TJ kids are beaten by magnet kids from ranked 193rd and 500th schools? How embarrassing.

TJ has a higher percentage of kids as nmsf as well. TJ has about 36 % (163/450), Blair science magnet has about 33 %, RM IB has about 35%.

New low even for DCUM standard. So now you are desperate enough to tell a lie? How cow man!

Yes, this is the culture that produced Sara Kim. Now you know where it starts from.

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Anonymous wrote:The only thing TJ is third on is a national ranking of high schools where RM and Blair are ranked 193rd and 500th, respectively.

TJ kids are beaten by magnet kids from ranked 193rd and 500th schools? How embarrassing.

TJ has a higher percentage of kids as nmsf as well. TJ has about 36 % (163/450), Blair science magnet has about 33 %, RM IB has about 35%.

I have to ask you given my DC knows all 41. How did you come up with 35%?

I am anxious to see how he responds to your question too.

I am not the poster who suggested the RM IB NMSF percentage was 35%. However, I just looked for some data. The profile for RM's IB program states that roughly 25% of the school's students are in the IB magnet program. RM had 482 seniors last year. That translates to roughly 120 magnet students. Even assuming that all 41 semifinalists were in the magnet program, which may or may not be true, that would be about 35%. It seems like a reasonable estimate. But even if it were understated, the much larger total of NMSF at TJ would still be more relevant.

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Anonymous wrote:The only thing TJ is third on is a national ranking of high schools where RM and Blair are ranked 193rd and 500th, respectively.

TJ kids are beaten by magnet kids from ranked 193rd and 500th schools? How embarrassing.

TJ has a higher percentage of kids as nmsf as well. TJ has about 36 % (163/450), Blair science magnet has about 33 %, RM IB has about 35%.

I have to ask you given my DC knows all 41. How did you come up with 35%?

I am anxious to see how he responds to your question too.

I am not the poster who suggested the RM IB NMSF percentage was 35%. However, I just looked for some data. The profile for RM's IB program states that roughly 25% of the school's students are in the IB magnet program. RM had 482 seniors last year. That translates to roughly 120 magnet students. Even assuming that all 41 semifinalists were in the magnet program, which may or may not be true, that would be about 35%. It seems like a reasonable estimate. But even if it were understated, the much larger total of NMS capital up at TJ would still be more relevant.

Anonymous wrote:The Montgomery County people seem happy with their schools, and the FCPS people seem to be happy with their school. Why all the bickering back and forth?

+1. It often seems that there is one person posting all the time and agreeing with him/herself!
People go crazy with the need to prove to themselves that they made a better choice. Or just crazy, period.

The Montgomery County people seem happy with their schools, and the FCPS people seem to be happy with their school. Why all the bickering back and forth?

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Anonymous wrote:The only thing TJ is third on is a national ranking of high schools where RM and Blair are ranked 193rd and 500th, respectively.

TJ kids are beaten by magnet kids from ranked 193rd and 500th schools? How embarrassing.

TJ has a higher percentage of kids as nmsf as well. TJ has about 36 % (163/450), Blair science magnet has about 33 %, RM IB has about 35%.

I have to ask you given my DC knows all 41. How did you come up with 35%?

I am anxious to see how he responds to your question too.

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Anonymous wrote:The only thing TJ is third on is a national ranking of high schools where RM and Blair are ranked 193rd and 500th, respectively.

TJ kids are beaten by magnet kids from ranked 193rd and 500th schools? How embarrassing.

The High Schools With The Highest SAT/ACT Scores In The Nation

1. Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Annandale, Va.
2. The Harker School in San Jose, Calif.
3. Dalton School in New York, N.Y.
4. Stuyvesant High School in New York, N.Y.
5. Regis High School in New York, N.Y.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/23/schools-highest-sat-scores_n_4654077.html

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Anonymous wrote:So, 3rd in NMSF in DC area and 3rd in ranking too?

No. Ranked No. 1 by Newsweek 2 years in a row and TJ has the most NMSF of any high schools in the world!

America's Top High Schools 2015

Rank School Name State College Readiness Graduation Rate College Bound Poverty
1 Thomas Jefferson High VA 100.0 100.0% 99.8% 2.2
2 High Technology High School NJ 99.7 100.0% 100.0% 0
3 Academy For Mathematics Science And Engineering NJ 98.2 100.0% 100.0% 0
4 Union County Magnet High School NJ 97.2 100.0% 100.0% 10
5 Bergen County Academies NJ 95.9 100.0% 100.0% 2.9
6 Gretchen Whitney High CA 95.4 100.0% 100.0% 19.6
7 Middlesex County Academy for Science, Mathematics and Engineering Technologies NJ 95.0 100.0% 100.0% 0
8 International Academy MI 93.9 99.3% 100.0% 4.6
9 Academy Of Allied Health And Science NJ 93.9 100.0% 100.0% 3.1
10 Payton College Preparatory HS IL 93.8 98.6% 97.8% 32.1

http://www.newsweek.com/high-schools/americas-top-high-schools-2015

At every level, Fairfax is outperforming Montgomery, and AP is creaming IB. Fairfax has the top high school in the country in TJ, and TJ has roughly twice as many semifinalists as the two schools in Maryland with the most semifinalists combined. Fairfax also has 237 NMSF compared to only 138 in Montgomery. And, Fairfax has a much higher percentage of high schools with at least one semifinalist: 76% as compared to only 58% in Montgomery. At the same time, most of the semifinalists are enrolled in AP schools, not IB schools. In Fairfax, over 97% of the semifinalists attend AP schools. In Montgomery, over 65% do.

Given that evidence, the possibility that the percentage of students in the small, selective magnet IB program at RM who are semifinalists may be a couple percentage points higher than the percentage of students at TJ, which educates a larger and deeper pool of talented students, who are semifinalists is at most a minor side-note to this discussion.

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Anonymous wrote:The only thing TJ is third on is a national ranking of high schools where RM and Blair are ranked 193rd and 500th, respectively.

TJ kids are beaten by magnet kids from ranked 193rd and 500th schools? How embarrassing.

TJ has a higher percentage of kids as nmsf as well. TJ has about 36 % (163/450), Blair science magnet has about 33 %, RM IB has about 35%.

I have to ask you given my DC knows all 41. How did you come up with 35%?

Anonymous wrote:TJ dropped to 3rd? No longer the first??

Ranked number one high school and the smartest high school:

1. Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology – Annandale, Virginia
2. International Academy – Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
3. High Technology High School – Lincroft, New Jersey
4. Westlake High School – Austin, Texas
5. Walter Payton College Preparatory High School – Chicago
6. BASIS Scottsdale – Scottsdale, Arizona
7. Lynbrook High School – San Jose, California
8. Henry M. Gunn High School – Palo Alto, California
9. Liberal Arts & Science Academy – Austin, Texas
10. Saratoga High School – Saratoga, California

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http://www.businessinsider.com/smartest-public-schools-in-the-us-2015-4?op=1

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Anonymous wrote:The only thing TJ is third on is a national ranking of high schools where RM and Blair are ranked 193rd and 500th, respectively.

TJ kids are beaten by magnet kids from ranked 193rd and 500th schools? How embarrassing.

TJ has a higher percentage of kids as nmsf as well. TJ has about 36 % (163/450), Blair science magnet has about 33 %, RM IB has about 35%.

New low even for DCUM standard. So now you are desperate enough to tell a lie? How cow man!

DP here. You should not be complaining about lies, when you consistently misrepresented the size of TJ's current senior class at 500. PP is closer to the mark, as there were 450–460 juniors at TJ last year. So the correct percentage at TJ is around 36%, not the lower 31% you keep repeating.

I do not know the exact sizes of the smaller programs at RM and Blair, but given your obvious inattention to detail and inability to confirm whether all the MMSF at RM and Blair are actually in the magnet programs, you surely have those numbers and percentages wrong as well. That is yet another reason why the much higher numbers of NMSF at TJ matter more than any percentages you might offer up about the percentage of students in RM's smaller IB program who are NMSF. The former speaks more clearly to where most of the top students in the region live and whether they prefer AP and higher level courses to IB.

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Anonymous wrote:The only thing TJ is third on is a national ranking of high schools where RM and Blair are ranked 193rd and 500th, respectively.

TJ kids are beaten by magnet kids from ranked 193rd and 500th schools? How embarrassing.

TJ has a higher percentage of kids as nmsf as well. TJ has about 36 % (163/450), Blair science magnet has about 33 %, RM IB has about 35%.

You lost perspective. Maybe you never had one to begin with. Sad for your kid.

You can't handle the truth.

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Anonymous wrote:The only thing TJ is third on is a national ranking of high schools where RM and Blair are ranked 193rd and 500th, respectively.

TJ kids are beaten by magnet kids from ranked 193rd and 500th schools? How embarrassing.

TJ has a higher percentage of kids as nmsf as well. TJ has about 36 % (163/450), Blair science magnet has about 33 %, RM IB has about 35%.

You lost perspective. Maybe you never had one to begin with. Sad for your kid.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The only thing TJ is third on is a national ranking of high schools where RM and Blair are ranked 193rd and 500th, respectively.

TJ kids are beaten by magnet kids from ranked 193rd and 500th schools? How embarrassing.

TJ has a higher percentage of kids as nmsf as well. TJ has about 36 % (163/450), Blair science magnet has about 33 %, RM IB has about 35%.

New low even for DCUM standard. So now you are desperate enough to tell a lie? How cow man!