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Article: Drawn to Magnet Schools; Students Do Extra Work Just to Get In
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- December 13, 2001
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Quinn Connor spent weeks thinking about what to say in the essays
she had to write to apply to Eastern Middle School. She spent her
fifth-grade winter vacation finishing the final drafts.
It was a lot of extra work and there was no guarantee she'd get
in. Every year, about 800 fifth-graders apply to Eastern and only 100
are accepted.
But for Quinn, 12, now a seventh-grader at Eastern, the humanities
and communications magnet school in Montgomery County, all the work
and worrying and waiting were worth it. "I was kind of nervous,
thinking, 'What will they think of my writing? What if it's not good
enough?' " Connor said.
"But the day the package came, I was so happy."
Every year, thousands ...