Has anyone received AOS/AET acceptance ? |
No |
Anyone knows how many kids got into AET or AOS or TJ from Mercer middle school? |
At our MS 9 or 10 TJ admits. All but one accepted into AOS or AET as well. Everyone with both admits prefers TJ over AOS/AET. Good luck all.
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Those open positions will be offered to the same school. Right? |
Does anyone know how many of 11 TJ admits were also offered AOS/AET and declined it? |
Which school? |
We already accepted AET, and rejected TJ, due to concerns with TJ rigor, college admissions, and distance. |
Weren't these factors not known before applying to TJ? |
True. Please better not to apply if you are not interested in those schools. If any kid declines the offer , that goes to common pool. |
I know several Indian parents, and it seems common among them to justify their child's decision to decline a TJ offer by attributing it to reasons like distance, college admissions, or sleep deprivation, rather than admitting their child lacks confidence to handle TJ's rigorous curriculum. It's quite annoying when these parents repeatedly bring up the topic by themselves, boasting about how their child received a TJ offer but turned it down, as if the offer alone validates their child's academic ability. These are worst parents to get advise from when evaluating a TJ offer, as they go to great lengths to convince of drawbacks of TJ. I'm glad we didn't take their input seriously, and accepted our TJ offer. |
You are 100% correct ( i am an Indian myself)... its more for self gratification than for any of those things they mention. These are parents who are trying to live their unrealized dreams through their kids lives while trying to up their social stature within the community. For those exact same reasons mentioned - we didnt apply to TJ at all...kid is waitlisted in AOS/AET both at this time. If not either of those, perfectly fine with the base school. Sun will rise the next day! |
Do we need to send kids for trainings for these tests AOS/AET/TJ? |
In my view - The above 2 posts are a generalized ill informed opinion : Irrespective of nationality/ethnicity - I think lot of parents who reject TJ or AOL do not do apply for self gratification . Most of the parents go by kids opinion/suggestion by teacher and apply for both schools knowing well that they have to reject either of one if the kids gets into both. Reason for that is they want to provide the kids options to choose from. Every year There have been cases of kids who got into AOL and TJ but later changed mind to go to Base school for multitude of reasons.. |
Yes, starting elementary grades. |