if your kids go to Blair magnet, you really don't need college to be successful.

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Anonymous wrote:Magnet and non magent students
Is UMD one of the 10 universities Blair graduates are accepted to and attend? What other colleges do they attend?

Blair SMCS students are top feeders to MIT, CMU, UC Berkeley, Cornell, Georgia Tech, JHU, UMich and UIUC traditionally. Typically 70%+ SMCS students will use UMD as their safe schools. That's not going to be the case in the future. For example, none of the 11 MIT offers from the latest graduation class came from a DCC student.

You are so full of shit.

1. There are plenty of smart DCC kids in the magnet (my own kid is one of them) — in fact many kids in the magnet have Blair as their home school. So quit promoting this BS.

2. There will be FIVE more graduating classes until the proposed changes go into effect (all 4 current grades of high school plus current 8th graders), so whatever changes take place will take FIVE years to show up in terms of university admissions.

3. The proposals do not include limiting admission to the DCC but creating new regions so denigrating the DCC is just BS.

I’m just stating facts. Facts are just facts. I’m not saying anywhere that SMCS doesn’t have Blair students. Of course it does. But none of the 11 MIT offers went to DCC students. In the past 3 years there were a total of 25 MIT offers. You can ask around and see how many were actually offered to DCC students? At most 1-2. By kicking W students back Region 4 will NOT give your bright kid more chance to get an elite offer. It will only water down the program as the majority of the top performers are gone.

Oh my gosh please. Maybe the families don’t think MIT is affordable if they aren’t from wealthy Whitman. Don’t over assume. People have the smallest worldviews where they assume everyone’s priorities and privileges are identical to theirs and as a result anyone who doesn’t make the same decisions as they do are obviously inferior.

Absolutely. My own Blair magnet kid didn’t apply to MIT because it’s not in our budget. Could he have got in? Maybe. Blair is our home school. MIT admissions aren’t a proxy for who is the best.

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Anonymous wrote:Magnet and non magent students
Is UMD one of the 10 universities Blair graduates are accepted to and attend? What other colleges do they attend?

Blair SMCS students are top feeders to MIT, CMU, UC Berkeley, Cornell, Georgia Tech, JHU, UMich and UIUC traditionally. Typically 70%+ SMCS students will use UMD as their safe schools. That's not going to be the case in the future. For example, none of the 11 MIT offers from the latest graduation class came from a DCC student.

You are so full of shit.

1. There are plenty of smart DCC kids in the magnet (my own kid is one of them) — in fact many kids in the magnet have Blair as their home school. So quit promoting this BS.

2. There will be FIVE more graduating classes until the proposed changes go into effect (all 4 current grades of high school plus current 8th graders), so whatever changes take place will take FIVE years to show up in terms of university admissions.

3. The proposals do not include limiting admission to the DCC but creating new regions so denigrating the DCC is just BS.

I’m just stating facts. Facts are just facts. I’m not saying anywhere that SMCS doesn’t have Blair students. Of course it does. But none of the 11 MIT offers went to DCC students. In the past 3 years there were a total of 25 MIT offers. You can ask around and see how many were actually offered to DCC students? At most 1-2. By kicking W students back Region 4 will NOT give your bright kid more chance to get an elite offer. It will only water down the program as the majority of the top performers are gone.

Your facts aren’t even remotely correct. I don’t disagree that the proposals will be a disaster for the magnet but your claim about DCC students is both wrong and irrelevant. The new proposed region for Blair is not the DCC. And your insinuation that these changes will immediately impact university admissions is also wrong. So what “facts” are you actually talking about?

Thanks for sharing your own "fact".

What do you see here that isn’t correct? Please be specific.

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Anonymous wrote:Magnet and non magent students
Is UMD one of the 10 universities Blair graduates are accepted to and attend? What other colleges do they attend?

Blair SMCS students are top feeders to MIT, CMU, UC Berkeley, Cornell, Georgia Tech, JHU, UMich and UIUC traditionally. Typically 70%+ SMCS students will use UMD as their safe schools. That's not going to be the case in the future. For example, none of the 11 MIT offers from the latest graduation class came from a DCC student.

You are so full of shit.

1. There are plenty of smart DCC kids in the magnet (my own kid is one of them) — in fact many kids in the magnet have Blair as their home school. So quit promoting this BS.

2. There will be FIVE more graduating classes until the proposed changes go into effect (all 4 current grades of high school plus current 8th graders), so whatever changes take place will take FIVE years to show up in terms of university admissions.

3. The proposals do not include limiting admission to the DCC but creating new regions so denigrating the DCC is just BS.

I’m just stating facts. Facts are just facts. I’m not saying anywhere that SMCS doesn’t have Blair students. Of course it does. But none of the 11 MIT offers went to DCC students. In the past 3 years there were a total of 25 MIT offers. You can ask around and see how many were actually offered to DCC students? At most 1-2. By kicking W students back Region 4 will NOT give your bright kid more chance to get an elite offer. It will only water down the program as the majority of the top performers are gone.

Oh my gosh please. Maybe the families don’t think MIT is affordable if they aren’t from wealthy Whitman. Don’t over assume. People have the smallest worldviews where they assume everyone’s priorities and privileges are identical to theirs and as a result anyone who doesn’t make the same decisions as they do are obviously inferior.

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Anonymous wrote:The best ones they can afford.

A large percentage of the magnet students go to UMD.

And even UMBC too

Yep. UMD and UMBC. Good programs in state tuition.

How many a year get into UMD CP from magnet? How many a year get into UMBC from magnet? Do they track post bac plans or education levels of those who were at Blair Magnet? Like do they go to UMDCP and continue to graduate programs and if so, where do they end up for grad school? Or do they enter the workforce full time?

This is WAY too much. Stop. Don’t send your kid to the magnet. At the presentation, Ostrander even says, we don’t share where kids go from here. We care about giving them a phenomenal high school experience. And they do! The education my kid got was amazing. And he had fun! The kids will go where they’re going to go.

I will say, that when my son heard about how are it was to get into UMDCP, he asked a teacher who said, for you guys, UMDCP is a safety. And it seemed to hold true. They all get in if they have good grades and test scores. They do college level research between 11th and 12th grade!

Anyway, stop asking about grad school and all that. Your child is 14! Just do the next right thing for your kid. If he or she WANTS to go to the magnet, send them and they’ll have fun and learn a bunch and be wildly prepared for whatever comes next.