Anonymous
Post 03/14/2023 19:57     Subject: Re:RMIB vs BCC IB
OP if you are still reading this, I found this post interesting:

Read post 03/14/2023 18:52 about BCC

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/60/1118920.page
Anonymous
Post 03/13/2023 20:59     Subject: RMIB vs BCC IB
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:So is RMIB envy the new thing around here?


It's the new thing evidently.

W parents, including BCC, hate on anything that is not a W school, calling it ganglandia or some such. That is not new.


BCC isn't a W school.

Might as well be for the wealth and number of white kids, which higher in BCC than WJ.


WJ is 49.8% white, BCC is 48.7% white

2022 to 2023?

Here's 2021 to 2022:

WJ 50.3% white
https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/regulatoryaccountability/glance/currentyear/schools/04424.pdf

BCC 53.5% white
https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/regulatoryaccountability/glance/currentyear/schools/04406.pdf


Interesting changes. Yes, the 2022-23 numbers are included in the CIP chapters:

https://gis.mcpsmd.org/cipmasterpdfs/CIP24_Chapter4BCC.pdf

https://gis.mcpsmd.org/cipmasterpdfs/CIP24_Chapter4Johnson.pdf
Anonymous
Post 03/13/2023 20:11     Subject: RMIB vs BCC IB
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:So is RMIB envy the new thing around here?


It's the new thing evidently.

W parents, including BCC, hate on anything that is not a W school, calling it ganglandia or some such. That is not new.


BCC isn't a W school.

Might as well be for the wealth and number of white kids, which higher in BCC than WJ.


WJ is 49.8% white, BCC is 48.7% white

2022 to 2023?

Here's 2021 to 2022:

WJ 50.3% white
https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/regulatoryaccountability/glance/currentyear/schools/04424.pdf

BCC 53.5% white
https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/regulatoryaccountability/glance/currentyear/schools/04406.pdf
Anonymous
Post 03/13/2023 18:32     Subject: RMIB vs BCC IB
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:So is RMIB envy the new thing around here?


It's the new thing evidently.

W parents, including BCC, hate on anything that is not a W school, calling it ganglandia or some such. That is not new.


BCC isn't a W school.

Might as well be for the wealth and number of white kids, which higher in BCC than WJ.


WJ is 49.8% white, BCC is 48.7% white
Anonymous
Post 03/13/2023 18:27     Subject: RMIB vs BCC IB
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:So is RMIB envy the new thing around here?


It's the new thing evidently.

W parents, including BCC, hate on anything that is not a W school, calling it ganglandia or some such. That is not new.


BCC isn't a W school.

Might as well be for the wealth and number of white kids, which higher in BCC than WJ.
Anonymous
Post 03/13/2023 18:15     Subject: RMIB vs BCC IB
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:So is RMIB envy the new thing around here?


It's the new thing evidently.

W parents, including BCC, hate on anything that is not a W school, calling it ganglandia or some such. That is not new.


Meanwhile, kids at the W's are chasing each other with knives or passing out in the bathroom, but it's a W so they're good kids.
Anonymous
Post 03/13/2023 18:14     Subject: RMIB vs BCC IB
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:So is RMIB envy the new thing around here?


It's the new thing evidently.

W parents, including BCC, hate on anything that is not a W school, calling it ganglandia or some such. That is not new.


BCC isn't a W school.


It's much better!
Anonymous
Post 03/13/2023 15:48     Subject: RMIB vs BCC IB
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:So is RMIB envy the new thing around here?


It's the new thing evidently.

W parents, including BCC, hate on anything that is not a W school, calling it ganglandia or some such. That is not new.


BCC isn't a W school.
Anonymous
Post 03/13/2023 12:40     Subject: RMIB vs BCC IB
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:So is RMIB envy the new thing around here?


It's the new thing evidently.

W parents, including BCC, hate on anything that is not a W school, calling it ganglandia or some such. That is not new.
Anonymous
Post 03/13/2023 12:36     Subject: RMIB vs BCC IB
Anonymous wrote:So is RMIB envy the new thing around here?


It's the new thing evidently.
Anonymous
Post 03/13/2023 12:16     Subject: RMIB vs BCC IB
Anonymous wrote:So is RMIB envy the new thing around here?


Envy for what? My kid is doing the IB Diploma Programme in our home school (not BCC or RM).
Anonymous
Post 03/13/2023 11:55     Subject: RMIB vs BCC IB
So is RMIB envy the new thing around here?
Anonymous
Post 03/13/2023 11:45     Subject: RMIB vs BCC IB
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:We are in B-CC cluster, and I can't imagine sending my kid to RMIB given that B-CC already has an IB program. That commute would be terrible for us, and I'm confident my son would do fine in B-CC IB if he wanted to do it. Is OP asking whether to move inbounds for one vs. the other given the quality? It sounds like inbounds students for RM can joint he IB program in 11th grade without having to apply. If that's the case, then it sounds pretty similar to the process at B-CC. I wouldn't want to live in farther from DC/work than we already do, so if I were looking to move now I would choose B-CC catchement over RM's in a heartbeat. But if that's not an issue for OP, then it sounds like RM is the way to go. You get the right to attend the IB program even if you are not selected for the magnet, and if you do get into the magnet, and the magnet itself has additonal specialized classes for 9th and 10th graders.


Both schools are fine options.

I'm an RMIB parent, I wouldn't necessarily choose RMIB over BCC if the commute is awful.

However, it really depends on the kid. We decided to not have DC apply to MS magnet because the commute was going to be horrible, but in hindsight, I think DC would've been better off at a MS magnet. If your kid is really exceptionally high achieving, the RMS 9th and 10th grade courses will be more challenging than the "honors" 9th/10th courses anywhere else.

But, then again, not having the advanced 9th and 10th grade courses might be better off from an extra curricular and time saving perspective.

I think the decision really depends on the kid.

Maybe you could live in BCC cluster, apply to RMIB, and if the student gets accepted, go there for 9th and see what it's like. If they don't like it, they can always go back to BCC and join IB in 11th grade.
Anonymous
Post 03/13/2023 11:12     Subject: RMIB vs BCC IB
Anonymous wrote:RMIB has the same number of admittances to the same kinds of colleges as Whitman. There's an annual chart that someone always posts in the college forum.

So the usual - 1 or 2 to Harvard, 1 to MIT etc etc.
They aren't changing the college's own criteria for selection or the limits on how many they will accept from any given HS.

You all should know this already.


I'm guessing that the chart is for Richard Montgomery HS, not for the RM IB magnet program. From reading DCUM, you'd think the only RM students who go to college are the students in the RM IB magnet program.
Anonymous
Post 03/13/2023 10:58     Subject: RMIB vs BCC IB
RMIB has the same number of admittances to the same kinds of colleges as Whitman. There's an annual chart that someone always posts in the college forum.

So the usual - 1 or 2 to Harvard, 1 to MIT etc etc.
They aren't changing the college's own criteria for selection or the limits on how many they will accept from any given HS.

You all should know this already.