Top Tier Boarding school vs. TJ

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Anonymous wrote:One prep school thing to do is row crew. What does TJ have? An excellent crew roster. Another prep school thing? Tennis. What does TJ have? The best tennis players in the state. Golf? Same. How about Model UN? Possibly the best HS Model UN in the country. Percentage of NMSF is highest in the country. Most of the kids get gold medals on national language exams. Plus they are all good at science and math - and some are well beyond that. Not a bad place and not all kids there are unusual except in their intelligence. There are a lot of nice, polite, typically acting and looking kids who would do great anywhere.

TJ's swim team is very good, Quizbowl team placed second nationally and has very strong debate teams that regularly beat top private teams in DC area tournaments. They win the most scholastic writing awards from the area as well.

I used to work for an organization that put on a quiz bowl yoke thing for HS students. The TJ kids were soooo arrogant.

They have the best quizbowl team in the country if you look at their record for the past 20 years. Why are private/BS not very good at quizbowls? They are likely to do well since 60-70% of the questions cover literature, arts, music, history etc. Only about 20-25% cover science & math.

I think you missed PP's point.

BS kids are way more arrogant than TJ kids.

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Anonymous wrote:One prep school thing to do is row crew. What does TJ have? An excellent crew roster. Another prep school thing? Tennis. What does TJ have? The best tennis players in the state. Golf? Same. How about Model UN? Possibly the best HS Model UN in the country. Percentage of NMSF is highest in the country. Most of the kids get gold medals on national language exams. Plus they are all good at science and math - and some are well beyond that. Not a bad place and not all kids there are unusual except in their intelligence. There are a lot of nice, polite, typically acting and looking kids who would do great anywhere.

TJ's swim team is very good, Quizbowl team placed second nationally and has very strong debate teams that regularly beat top private teams in DC area tournaments. They win the most scholastic writing awards from the area as well.

I used to work for an organization that put on a quiz bowl yoke thing for HS students. The TJ kids were soooo arrogant.

They have the best quizbowl team in the country if you look at their record for the past 20 years. Why are private/BS not very good at quizbowls? They are likely to do well since 60-70% of the questions cover literature, arts, music, history etc. Only about 20-25% cover science & math.

I think you missed PP's point.

BS kids are way more arrogant than TJ kids.

No, try again. That wasn't PP's point.

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Anonymous wrote:One prep school thing to do is row crew. What does TJ have? An excellent crew roster. Another prep school thing? Tennis. What does TJ have? The best tennis players in the state. Golf? Same. How about Model UN? Possibly the best HS Model UN in the country. Percentage of NMSF is highest in the country. Most of the kids get gold medals on national language exams. Plus they are all good at science and math - and some are well beyond that. Not a bad place and not all kids there are unusual except in their intelligence. There are a lot of nice, polite, typically acting and looking kids who would do great anywhere.

TJ's swim team is very good, Quizbowl team placed second nationally and has very strong debate teams that regularly beat top private teams in DC area tournaments. They win the most scholastic writing awards from the area as well.

I used to work for an organization that put on a quiz bowl yoke thing for HS students. The TJ kids were soooo arrogant.

They have the best quizbowl team in the country if you look at their record for the past 20 years. Why are private/BS not very good at quizbowls? They are likely to do well since 60-70% of the questions cover literature, arts, music, history etc. Only about 20-25% cover science & math.

I think you missed PP's point.

BS kids are way more arrogant than TJ kids.

No, try again. That wasn't PP's point.

What was the point?

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Anonymous wrote:One prep school thing to do is row crew. What does TJ have? An excellent crew roster. Another prep school thing? Tennis. What does TJ have? The best tennis players in the state. Golf? Same. How about Model UN? Possibly the best HS Model UN in the country. Percentage of NMSF is highest in the country. Most of the kids get gold medals on national language exams. Plus they are all good at science and math - and some are well beyond that. Not a bad place and not all kids there are unusual except in their intelligence. There are a lot of nice, polite, typically acting and looking kids who would do great anywhere.

TJ's swim team is very good, Quizbowl team placed second nationally and has very strong debate teams that regularly beat top private teams in DC area tournaments. They win the most scholastic writing awards from the area as well.

I used to work for an organization that put on a quiz bowl yoke thing for HS students. The TJ kids were soooo arrogant.

They have the best quizbowl team in the country if you look at their record for the past 20 years. Why are private/BS not very good at quizbowls? They are likely to do well since 60-70% of the questions cover literature, arts, music, history etc. Only about 20-25% cover science & math.

I think you missed PP's point.

BS kids are way more arrogant than TJ kids.

No, try again. That wasn't PP's point.

What was the point?

Sigh... Nevermind.

[Anonymous]

I'm a native New Englander who attended a top tier BS before moving to DC years ago. I can assure you that TJ is not well known outside this geographic area. That's not to say it's not a fabulous school - it may well be, I really don't know - but no one in MA or CT is talking about it. I never even heard of it before I got on DCUM.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a native New Englander who attended a top tier BS before moving to DC years ago. I can assure you that TJ is not well known outside this geographic area. That's not to say it's not a fabulous school - it may well be, I really don't know - but no one in MA or CT is talking about it. I never even heard of it before I got on DCUM.

They certainly discuss TJ on College Confidential, Quora etc.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a native New Englander who attended a top tier BS before moving to DC years ago. I can assure you that TJ is not well known outside this geographic area. That's not to say it's not a fabulous school - it may well be, I really don't know - but no one in MA or CT is talking about it. I never even heard of it before I got on DCUM.

They certainly discuss TJ on College Confidential, Quora etc.

I am not on College Confidential and Quora is user supplied answers rather than a collection of objective information. My point is simply that people - regular people - outside of this geographic area are likely not familiar with TJ, despite the statements of others to the contrary.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a native New Englander who attended a top tier BS before moving to DC years ago. I can assure you that TJ is not well known outside this geographic area. That's not to say it's not a fabulous school - it may well be, I really don't know - but no one in MA or CT is talking about it. I never even heard of it before I got on DCUM.

They certainly discuss TJ on College Confidential, Quora etc.

Sir, you are really dense.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a native New Englander who attended a top tier BS before moving to DC years ago. I can assure you that TJ is not well known outside this geographic area. That's not to say it's not a fabulous school - it may well be, I really don't know - but no one in MA or CT is talking about it. I never even heard of it before I got on DCUM.

They certainly discuss TJ on College Confidential, Quora etc.

I am not on College Confidential and Quora is user supplied answers rather than a collection of objective information. My point is simply that people - regular people - outside of this geographic area are likely not familiar with TJ, despite the statements of others to the contrary.

Most (all most all including DC area) wouldn't be able to name any of HADES BS. They wouldn't even know what local Big 3 schools are. Probably not even Andover/Exeter.

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Anonymous wrote:One prep school thing to do is row crew. What does TJ have? An excellent crew roster. Another prep school thing? Tennis. What does TJ have? The best tennis players in the state. Golf? Same. How about Model UN? Possibly the best HS Model UN in the country. Percentage of NMSF is highest in the country. Most of the kids get gold medals on national language exams. Plus they are all good at science and math - and some are well beyond that. Not a bad place and not all kids there are unusual except in their intelligence. There are a lot of nice, polite, typically acting and looking kids who would do great anywhere.

TJ's swim team is very good, Quizbowl team placed second nationally and has very strong debate teams that regularly beat top private teams in DC area tournaments. They win the most scholastic writing awards from the area as well.

I used to work for an organization that put on a quiz bowl yoke thing for HS students. The TJ kids were soooo arrogant.

They have the best quizbowl team in the country if you look at their record for the past 20 years. Why are private/BS not very good at quizbowls? They are likely to do well since 60-70% of the questions cover literature, arts, music, history etc. Only about 20-25% cover science & math.

I think you missed PP's point.

BS kids are way more arrogant than TJ kids.

No, try again. That wasn't PP's point.

What was the point?

Sigh... Nevermind.

Most of the top BS kids wouldn't even make it into TJ and most would flunk out even if they did. Takes too much intelligence and work which most BS kids sorely lack. These BS kids will work for TJ kids in 10 years if they are not working for their mommy or daddy. Many of the HYP grads are itching to work for SV firms as opposed to working on Wall Street including MBAs from the top schools. Better pay and better working conditions. Many elite Wall Street firms only hire math/cs/engineering students only. Exeter brags about it's elite math team yet 80% of the math team is made up of Asians including the coach.

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Anonymous wrote:One prep school thing to do is row crew. What does TJ have? An excellent crew roster. Another prep school thing? Tennis. What does TJ have? The best tennis players in the state. Golf? Same. How about Model UN? Possibly the best HS Model UN in the country. Percentage of NMSF is highest in the country. Most of the kids get gold medals on national language exams. Plus they are all good at science and math - and some are well beyond that. Not a bad place and not all kids there are unusual except in their intelligence. There are a lot of nice, polite, typically acting and looking kids who would do great anywhere.

TJ's swim team is very good, Quizbowl team placed second nationally and has very strong debate teams that regularly beat top private teams in DC area tournaments. They win the most scholastic writing awards from the area as well.

I used to work for an organization that put on a quiz bowl yoke thing for HS students. The TJ kids were soooo arrogant.

They have the best quizbowl team in the country if you look at their record for the past 20 years. Why are private/BS not very good at quizbowls? They are likely to do well since 60-70% of the questions cover literature, arts, music, history etc. Only about 20-25% cover science & math.

I think you missed PP's point.

BS kids are way more arrogant than TJ kids.

No, try again. That wasn't PP's point.

What was the point?

Sigh... Nevermind.

Most of the top BS kids wouldn't even make it into TJ and most would flunk out even if they did. Takes too much intelligence and work which most BS kids sorely lack. These BS kids will work for TJ kids in 10 years if they are not working for their mommy or daddy. Many of the HYP grads are itching to work for SV firms as opposed to working on Wall Street including MBAs from the top schools. Better pay and better working conditions. Many elite Wall Street firms only hire math/cs/engineering students only. Exeter brags about it's elite math team yet 80% of the math team is made up of Asians including the coach.

Folks, please don't bite the bait of PP's post -- ignore.

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Anonymous wrote:One prep school thing to do is row crew. What does TJ have? An excellent crew roster. Another prep school thing? Tennis. What does TJ have? The best tennis players in the state. Golf? Same. How about Model UN? Possibly the best HS Model UN in the country. Percentage of NMSF is highest in the country. Most of the kids get gold medals on national language exams. Plus they are all good at science and math - and some are well beyond that. Not a bad place and not all kids there are unusual except in their intelligence. There are a lot of nice, polite, typically acting and looking kids who would do great anywhere.

TJ's swim team is very good, Quizbowl team placed second nationally and has very strong debate teams that regularly beat top private teams in DC area tournaments. They win the most scholastic writing awards from the area as well.

I used to work for an organization that put on a quiz bowl yoke thing for HS students. The TJ kids were soooo arrogant.

They have the best quizbowl team in the country if you look at their record for the past 20 years. Why are private/BS not very good at quizbowls? They are likely to do well since 60-70% of the questions cover literature, arts, music, history etc. Only about 20-25% cover science & math.

I think you missed PP's point.

BS kids are way more arrogant than TJ kids.

No, try again. That wasn't PP's point.

What was the point?

Sigh... Nevermind.

Most of the top BS kids wouldn't even make it into TJ and most would flunk out even if they did. Takes too much intelligence and work which most BS kids sorely lack. These BS kids will work for TJ kids in 10 years if they are not working for their mommy or daddy. Many of the HYP grads are itching to work for SV firms as opposed to working on Wall Street including MBAs from the top schools. Better pay and better working conditions. Many elite Wall Street firms only hire math/cs/engineering students only. Exeter brags about it's elite math team yet 80% of the math team is made up of Asians including the coach.

TJ parent here, but have you seen the demographics of the TJ student body?

[Anonymous]

What idiot even brings TJ up in a discussion of elite, long standing, private schools like Exeter, Andover, Groton, Choate, St Paul's, STA and Sidwell? What a joke. TJ is an incredible, fantastic PUBLIC school for brilliant, hard working middle class and recently-arrived UMC kids. TJ is great for those folks but its comparing apples and oranges. Not even the same universe.

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Anonymous wrote:What idiot even brings TJ up in a discussion of elite, long standing, private schools like Exeter, Andover, Groton, Choate, St Paul's, STA and Sidwell? What a joke. TJ is an incredible, fantastic PUBLIC school for brilliant, hard working middle class and recently-arrived UMC kids. TJ is great for those folks but its comparing apples and oranges. Not even the same universe.

You are the idiot. There is only one universe idiot. Not in the same league, not at the same level etc. maybe ok but not "Not in the same universe". See the logic (or lack thereof) of people putting down TJ.

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Anonymous wrote:What idiot even brings TJ up in a discussion of elite, long standing, private schools like Exeter, Andover, Groton, Choate, St Paul's, STA and Sidwell? What a joke. TJ is an incredible, fantastic PUBLIC school for brilliant, hard working middle class and recently-arrived UMC kids. TJ is great for those folks but its comparing apples and oranges. Not even the same universe.

You are the idiot. There is only one universe idiot. Not in the same league, not at the same level etc. maybe ok but not "Not in the same universe". See the logic (or lack thereof) of people putting down TJ.

Learn to write first.