Top Tier Boarding school vs. TJ

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You can buy yourself a boarding school education (they love the rich donors), but you cannot buy yourself a TJ education. Everyone knows that. Your son will be respected for coming out of TJ...people will respect the vast wealth his parents must have amassed to get him into that great BS

PP I have never met such a person... Do people like that really exist... at TJ? Does any employer or graduate school care if someone went to a magnet school? Does TJ have a strong alumni association that graduates participate in for life?

This will sound ridiculous, but in my experience, yes. I keep my TJ graduation on my LinkedIn page and it's contributed to at least one job offer. People are really impressed by it.

Ugh... Please don't. If you think people care of your HS education, you are really off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can buy yourself a boarding school education (they love the rich donors), but you cannot buy yourself a TJ education. Everyone knows that. Your son will be respected for coming out of TJ...people will respect the vast wealth his parents must have amassed to get him into that great BS

PP I have never met such a person... Do people like that really exist... at TJ? Does any employer or graduate school care if someone went to a magnet school? Does TJ have a strong alumni association that graduates participate in for life?

This will sound ridiculous, but in my experience, yes. I keep my TJ graduation on my LinkedIn page and it's contributed to at least one job offer. People are really impressed by it.

Ugh... Please don't. If you think people care of your HS education, you are really off.

Maybe he is one of those guys who talk about his SAT scores 25 years later.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can buy yourself a boarding school education (they love the rich donors), but you cannot buy yourself a TJ education. Everyone knows that. Your son will be respected for coming out of TJ...people will respect the vast wealth his parents must have amassed to get him into that great BS

Coming out of HS, this is worth more than anything TJ can teach.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can buy yourself a boarding school education (they love the rich donors), but you cannot buy yourself a TJ education. Everyone knows that. Your son will be respected for coming out of TJ...people will respect the vast wealth his parents must have amassed to get him into that great BS

PP I have never met such a person... Do people like that really exist... at TJ? Does any employer or graduate school care if someone went to a magnet school? Does TJ have a strong alumni association that graduates participate in for life?

Not the PP but are you kidding me? Colleges will know you are smart if you are TJ. Colleges will know your folks are wealthy if you are BS (they may also think you are another kind of ...BS). "Do people like this exist"? Sure yes. They are called College Admissions Committees!! You missed the whole entire leg of college and jumped to graduate school. Well, er, the college you go to will determine the graduate school you get into and the employer you are employed by will be determined by your graduate school !

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:BS for a more well rounded education.

+1

-STEM person

[Anonymous]

I would not send ny child to boarding school unless having him live at home had become completely untenable and I had to find somewhere safe he could go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would not send ny child to boarding school unless having him live at home had become completely untenable and I had to find somewhere safe he could go.

Agree with this in general except for the very tippy top boarding schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can buy yourself a boarding school education (they love the rich donors), but you cannot buy yourself a TJ education. Everyone knows that. Your son will be respected for coming out of TJ...people will respect the vast wealth his parents must have amassed to get him into that great BS

PP I have never met such a person... Do people like that really exist... at TJ? Does any employer or graduate school care if someone went to a magnet school? Does TJ have a strong alumni association that graduates participate in for life?

Not the PP but are you kidding me? Colleges will know you are smart if you are TJ. Colleges will know your folks are wealthy if you are BS (they may also think you are another kind of ...BS). "Do people like this exist"? Sure yes. They are called College Admissions Committees!! You missed the whole entire leg of college and jumped to graduate school. Well, er, the college you go to will determine the graduate school you get into and the employer you are employed by will be determined by your graduate school !

It is very clear many posters,have no clue what the top tier boarding schools are like.

[Anonymous]

OP: there are all kinds of BS. Just like there are all kinds of private schools in general (even just in DC). Everyone knows exactly what kind of school TJ is, and what it means about the student's academic abilities if they attend it.

This is not the case with BS, except for the very top ones. When you say "top tier" you may have in mind 10 schools of which only a handful are seen by others as "top tier". Be more precise - what are the BS you are speaking about? Do not fear, many people apply to them, so you will remain anonymous even after naming them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can buy yourself a boarding school education (they love the rich donors), but you cannot buy yourself a TJ education. Everyone knows that. Your son will be respected for coming out of TJ...people will respect the vast wealth his parents must have amassed to get him into that great BS

PP I have never met such a person... Do people like that really exist... at TJ? Does any employer or graduate school care if someone went to a magnet school? Does TJ have a strong alumni association that graduates participate in for life?

Not the PP but are you kidding me? Colleges will know you are smart if you are TJ. Colleges will know your folks are wealthy if you are BS (they may also think you are another kind of ...BS). "Do people like this exist"? Sure yes. They are called College Admissions Committees!! You missed the whole entire leg of college and jumped to graduate school. Well, er, the college you go to will determine the graduate school you get into and the employer you are employed by will be determined by your graduate school !

It is very clear many posters,have no clue what the top tier boarding schools are like.

+1000 !!

[Anonymous]

BSchool. It's not "what" you know, it's "who" you know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can buy yourself a boarding school education (they love the rich donors), but you cannot buy yourself a TJ education. Everyone knows that. Your son will be respected for coming out of TJ...people will respect the vast wealth his parents must have amassed to get him into that great BS

PP I have never met such a person... Do people like that really exist... at TJ? Does any employer or graduate school care if someone went to a magnet school? Does TJ have a strong alumni association that graduates participate in for life?

Not the PP but are you kidding me? Colleges will know you are smart if you are TJ. Colleges will know your folks are wealthy if you are BS (they may also think you are another kind of ...BS). "Do people like this exist"? Sure yes. They are called College Admissions Committees!! You missed the whole entire leg of college and jumped to graduate school. Well, er, the college you go to will determine the graduate school you get into and the employer you are employed by will be determined by your graduate school !

It is very clear many posters,have no clue what the top tier boarding schools are like.

+1000 !!

+1001

And many people have an inflated idea of how widely known TJ is. Few people outside of the DMV area or, perhaps universities with strong STEM programs, know what TJ is. When I'm hiring, I never know or ask what high school a kid attended; however, if I happened upon this information I would be as impressed by a school like Sidwell or St. Albans (perhaps more so, because these schools tend to develop strong leaders) as I would TJ. I would be much more impressed by a school like Phillips Exeter or Choate than TJ. MUCH.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can buy yourself a boarding school education (they love the rich donors), but you cannot buy yourself a TJ education. Everyone knows that. Your son will be respected for coming out of TJ...people will respect the vast wealth his parents must have amassed to get him into that great BS

PP I have never met such a person... Do people like that really exist... at TJ? Does any employer or graduate school care if someone went to a magnet school? Does TJ have a strong alumni association that graduates participate in for life?

Not the PP but are you kidding me? Colleges will know you are smart if you are TJ. Colleges will know your folks are wealthy if you are BS (they may also think you are another kind of ...BS). "Do people like this exist"? Sure yes. They are called College Admissions Committees!! You missed the whole entire leg of college and jumped to graduate school. Well, er, the college you go to will determine the graduate school you get into and the employer you are employed by will be determined by your graduate school !

It is very clear many posters,have no clue what the top tier boarding schools are like.

+1000 !!

+1001

And many people have an inflated idea of how widely known TJ is. Few people outside of the DMV area or, perhaps universities with strong STEM programs, know what TJ is. When I'm hiring, I never know or ask what high school a kid attended; however, if I happened upon this information I would be as impressed by a school like Sidwell or St. Albans (perhaps more so, because these schools tend to develop strong leaders) as I would TJ. I would be much more impressed by a school like Phillips Exeter or Choate than TJ. MUCH.

It wouldn't "impress" me per se but it will catch my eyes... College matters a lot more obviously.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:BSchool. It's not "what" you know, it's "who" you know.

This. "You're doing a good job Brownie". And, then on to the next cushy financially rewarding venture, all because of who you know.

[Anonymous]

I never heard of TJ until I moved to this area. We had our own magnet schools.