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Anonymous wrote:Admissions to prestigious schools is not a litmus test that demonstrates academic success in high school. There are a lot of students whose "donut hole" families can neither qualify for need-based aid, nor pay full price at top 20 schools (none of which award merit aid).

Because of this, many or maybe most such students do not even apply to top schools, but instead choose a state school or a lower-ranked school that awards them merit aid.

In the DC metro area, this is a very common situation for families of high achievers. Half the Blair SMAC magnet goes to UMD-CP, and it's not because they couldn't get into Princeton or MIT.

Good points here. It is also instructive to look at how many kids apply to Montgomery CC and non flagship MD public universities from each of the HSs.

I'm not sure I see your point re MIT and Princeton though. Looking at the chart, RM and Blair kids (presumably mostly from the magnet programs) apply to both MIT and Princeton in significantly higher numbers than most of the other Bethesda schools without much, if any, better acceptance numbers than some of the non-magnet HSs.

I don't know what the statistics are on we are students who apply to MIT, Princeton, and other elite schools.

I do know that many qualified Blair magnet students do not even apply to such schools, because their periods cannot pay for them. The point being that the number of applications submitted does not reflect the number of students who are qualified to be admitted and attend.

I don't know many Blair grads. Are they well rounded "look you in the eye" types? Or "stare at their shoes" types that excel at test taking? In the private school world the great test takers aren't typically the most well rounded students. There is a place for the top takers, but often it is not schools full of well-rounded social kids. Fit is very important.

They are the "look you in the eye" types.
The "stare at their shoes" types that excel at test taking , are on the other side of the Potomac river.

"Inferiority complex" is showing by a Blair booster.

Somebody's feelings got hurt by the truth!

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Anonymous wrote:Admissions to prestigious schools is not a litmus test that demonstrates academic success in high school. There are a lot of students whose "donut hole" families can neither qualify for need-based aid, nor pay full price at top 20 schools (none of which award merit aid).

Because of this, many or maybe most such students do not even apply to top schools, but instead choose a state school or a lower-ranked school that awards them merit aid.

In the DC metro area, this is a very common situation for families of high achievers. Half the Blair SMAC magnet goes to UMD-CP, and it's not because they couldn't get into Princeton or MIT.

Good points here. It is also instructive to look at how many kids apply to Montgomery CC and non flagship MD public universities from each of the HSs.

I'm not sure I see your point re MIT and Princeton though. Looking at the chart, RM and Blair kids (presumably mostly from the magnet programs) apply to both MIT and Princeton in significantly higher numbers than most of the other Bethesda schools without much, if any, better acceptance numbers than some of the non-magnet HSs.

I don't know what the statistics are on we are students who apply to MIT, Princeton, and other elite schools.

I do know that many qualified Blair magnet students do not even apply to such schools, because their periods cannot pay for them. The point being that the number of applications submitted does not reflect the number of students who are qualified to be admitted and attend.

I don't know many Blair grads. Are they well rounded "look you in the eye" types? Or "stare at their shoes" types that excel at test taking? In the private school world the great test takers aren't typically the most well rounded students. There is a place for the top takers, but often it is not schools full of well-rounded social kids. Fit is very important.

They are the "look you in the eye" types.
The "stare at their shoes" types that excel at test taking , are on the other side of the Potomac river.

"Inferiority complex" is showing by a Blair booster.

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Anonymous wrote:Admissions to prestigious schools is not a litmus test that demonstrates academic success in high school. There are a lot of students whose "donut hole" families can neither qualify for need-based aid, nor pay full price at top 20 schools (none of which award merit aid).

Because of this, many or maybe most such students do not even apply to top schools, but instead choose a state school or a lower-ranked school that awards them merit aid.

In the DC metro area, this is a very common situation for families of high achievers. Half the Blair SMAC magnet goes to UMD-CP, and it's not because they couldn't get into Princeton or MIT.

Good points here. It is also instructive to look at how many kids apply to Montgomery CC and non flagship MD public universities from each of the HSs.

I'm not sure I see your point re MIT and Princeton though. Looking at the chart, RM and Blair kids (presumably mostly from the magnet programs) apply to both MIT and Princeton in significantly higher numbers than most of the other Bethesda schools without much, if any, better acceptance numbers than some of the non-magnet HSs.

I don't know what the statistics are on we are students who apply to MIT, Princeton, and other elite schools.

I do know that many qualified Blair magnet students do not even apply to such schools, because their periods cannot pay for them. The point being that the number of applications submitted does not reflect the number of students who are qualified to be admitted and attend.

I don't know many Blair grads. Are they well rounded "look you in the eye" types? Or "stare at their shoes" types that excel at test taking? In the private school world the great test takers aren't typically the most well rounded students. There is a place for the top takers, but often it is not schools full of well-rounded social kids. Fit is very important.

They are the "look you in the eye" types.
The "stare at their shoes" types that excel at test taking , are on the other side of the Potomac river.

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Anonymous wrote:Admissions to prestigious schools is not a litmus test that demonstrates academic success in high school. There are a lot of students whose "donut hole" families can neither qualify for need-based aid, nor pay full price at top 20 schools (none of which award merit aid).

Because of this, many or maybe most such students do not even apply to top schools, but instead choose a state school or a lower-ranked school that awards them merit aid.

In the DC metro area, this is a very common situation for families of high achievers. Half the Blair SMAC magnet goes to UMD-CP, and it's not because they couldn't get into Princeton or MIT.

Good points here. It is also instructive to look at how many kids apply to Montgomery CC and non flagship MD public universities from each of the HSs.

I'm not sure I see your point re MIT and Princeton though. Looking at the chart, RM and Blair kids (presumably mostly from the magnet programs) apply to both MIT and Princeton in significantly higher numbers than most of the other Bethesda schools without much, if any, better acceptance numbers than some of the non-magnet HSs.

I don't know what the statistics are on we are students who apply to MIT, Princeton, and other elite schools.

I do know that many qualified Blair magnet students do not even apply to such schools, because their periods cannot pay for them. The point being that the number of applications submitted does not reflect the number of students who are qualified to be admitted and attend.

I don't know many Blair grads. Are they well rounded "look you in the eye" types? Or "stare at their shoes" types that excel at test taking? In the private school world the great test takers aren't typically the most well rounded students. There is a place for the top takers, but often it is not schools full of well-rounded social kids. Fit is very important.

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Anonymous wrote:The reason U MD is skyrocketing in incoming SAT

Either that or because it's the nearest major university to the largest user of advanced IT.