Anonymous wrote:Blair sends many to University of MD.

Because it has very strong tech/science programs and offer most Blair kids merit aid in addition to being instate. I can speak from experience it is a difficult choice between a auper selective super expensive private school and a strong state school which costs about 80% less after merit aid.

Blair sends many to University of MD.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. Their STEM magnet high school is Blair at Takoma Park. Some would claim that Blair is more selective since it is a much smaller program and only takes in the top 1% kids. Consistently sends kids to MIT.

There are 2 stem magnets. Sixteen HSs feed to Blair and 9 feed to Poolesville. Blair has about 100 kids and Poolesville has 75 (?). DCUM has had lots of arguments over how they compare to TJ. I won't go there.

100 per class at Blair? So about a quarter of TJ size. Probably all of them go to top 10 colleges as it sounds like a quarter of TJ kids go to top 10 ? Not even 10%

1/4 of TJ grads go to top ten???? lOL!!!!!

If you consider UVA as a top 10 school, then it's true.

Nope. For 2019:

Harvard 5
Yale 4
Princeton 4
Stanford 3
MIT 7
Chicago 8
Duke 4

UVA 37

Add 2 "top 10" schools, still less than 1/4 of TJ grads.

Are the numbers how many were admitted to each school? Or how many are actually going there? If the former, then it's likely only about 5-10 kids who got in most of the above schools.

In any case, I think Blair definitely has TJ beat given that it's 1/4 the size.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. Their STEM magnet high school is Blair at Takoma Park. Some would claim that Blair is more selective since it is a much smaller program and only takes in the top 1% kids. Consistently sends kids to MIT.

There are 2 stem magnets. Sixteen HSs feed to Blair and 9 feed to Poolesville. Blair has about 100 kids and Poolesville has 75 (?). DCUM has had lots of arguments over how they compare to TJ. I won't go there.

100 per class at Blair? So about a quarter of TJ size. Probably all of them go to top 10 colleges as it sounds like a quarter of TJ kids go to top 10 ? Not even 10%

1/4 of TJ grads go to top ten???? lOL!!!!!

If you consider UVA as a top 10 school, then it's true.

Nope. For 2019:

Harvard 5
Yale 4
Princeton 4
Stanford 3
MIT 7
Chicago 8
Duke 4

UVA 37

Add 2 "top 10" schools, still less than 1/4 of TJ grads.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. Their STEM magnet high school is Blair at Takoma Park. Some would claim that Blair is more selective since it is a much smaller program and only takes in the top 1% kids. Consistently sends kids to MIT.

There are 2 stem magnets. Sixteen HSs feed to Blair and 9 feed to Poolesville. Blair has about 100 kids and Poolesville has 75 (?). DCUM has had lots of arguments over how they compare to TJ. I won't go there.

100 per class at Blair? So about a quarter of TJ size. Probably all of them go to top 10 colleges as it sounds like a quarter of TJ kids go to top 10 ? Not even 10%

1/4 of TJ grads go to top ten???? lOL!!!!!

If you consider UVA as a top 10 school, then it's true.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. Their STEM magnet high school is Blair at Takoma Park. Some would claim that Blair is more selective since it is a much smaller program and only takes in the top 1% kids. Consistently sends kids to MIT.

There are 2 stem magnets. Sixteen HSs feed to Blair and 9 feed to Poolesville. Blair has about 100 kids and Poolesville has 75 (?). DCUM has had lots of arguments over how they compare to TJ. I won't go there.

100 per class at Blair? So about a quarter of TJ size. Probably all of them go to top 10 colleges as it sounds like a quarter of TJ kids go to top 10 ? Not even 10%

1/4 of TJ grads go to top ten???? lOL!!!!!

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. Their STEM magnet high school is Blair at Takoma Park. Some would claim that Blair is more selective since it is a much smaller program and only takes in the top 1% kids. Consistently sends kids to MIT.

There are 2 stem magnets. Sixteen HSs feed to Blair and 9 feed to Poolesville. Blair has about 100 kids and Poolesville has 75 (?). DCUM has had lots of arguments over how they compare to TJ. I won't go there.

100 per class at Blair? So about a quarter of TJ size. Probably all of them go to top 10 colleges as it sounds like a quarter of TJ kids go to top 10 ?

HoCo does not have magnets. Baltimore City has Poly (science) and Western (humanities).

MCPS has more magnet options. There's Blair and Poolesville, for one. I like how kids can access non-STEM magnet programs (at least at Poolesville), as it provides a wider array of options than just the STEM programs.

Poolesville might be the closest because it is a whole school magnet, with three main magnet programs and interdisciplinary access throughout. The SMACS program there is just one of them. As a result, the school has an overall large proportion of high achieving students. Definitely different than TJ, but has that whole-school feel.

The middle school SMACS magnet program for the upcounty is within Clemente MS and has an excellent reputation.

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Good point - OP, you said "Maryland" but you should be asking about your specific county.

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Anonymous wrote:Did MCPS not have a facility that it could dedicate to a magnet STEM school, as FCPS did with TJ, or was there a conscious decision to create “schools within a school” to boost the average test scores at those schools and/or promote some degree of interaction between the magnet and non-magnet students. They seem like very different environments.

I'll never understand why you weirdos are so obsessed with school average test scores. It's not a team sport.

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Anonymous wrote:While there are some exceptional kids in MCPS, Maryland has no equivalent to TJ nor does it have anywhere near the same number of high performing students.

LOL.
MD has more high performing students than VA, that's why MD, even though it's smaller, outperforms VA in almost every academic competitions.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regeneron_Science_Talent_Search

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_Academic

Anonymous wrote:While there are some exceptional kids in MCPS, Maryland has no equivalent to TJ nor does it have anywhere near the same number of high performing students.

Sure it does, just more are at base schools than in VA.

While there are some exceptional kids in MCPS, Maryland has no equivalent to TJ nor does it have anywhere near the same number of high performing students.