If a kid will fall in top 30-50% in TJ, is going to TJ a better idea

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Anonymous wrote:Top 5% or it’s bad to attend TJ for college admissions.

This. Obviously, if a family cares about the best education and opportunities for their kids, they care about that for both HS and college. Very short sighted to only think about HS.

It might be short sighted only looking at college when grad school is on the horizon.

TJ will prepare you for college better than other schools as long as you don't drown.

I think anyone that can reasonably expect to be in the top 20% at TJ should go.
How do you know if you will be top 20%?
Anyone that gets 99th percentile on standardized test scores should probably go. Maybe even 98th.

Bolded is -1000. You’re saying the number one kid at Langley or McLean is not equally prepared for college? Or that an unhooked ivy admit from a base school/any other school is less prepared than the 10th/200th kid at TJ? Unhinged.

—This is why TJ needs to be very carefully considered. It hurts college chances and as much as some say eh, so…it matters.

I agree that for a lot of students it hurts college chances but I think it really depends on the student.

IMHO,

If a student is top 10% at TJ, they are probably better off in every way for having attended TJ.

If a student is bottom 10% at TJ, they are probably worse off in every way for having attended TJ.

For most of the kids in the middle it's probably a relatively even trade-off of college admissions vs the TJ experience.
Unless you want to go to UVA, then stay at your base. UVA says they don't have a cap on TJ admissions, but it is absolutely wild the people you see getting rejected from UVA at TJ because there are already 50 people that got in during ED/EA that cycle.

UVA doesn't have a cap on admissions, but they do reject regular decision applicants whom they don't believe will accept their offer of admission. Indeed, a lot of elite schools do this.

Yield (percentage of offers accepted) matters in college rankings and it matters for admissions staffers with respect to their job performance. Applicants in the regular cycle are given a separate score that estimates the student's likelihood of accepting an offer of admission and if that score is low for whatever reason, there's a strong chance they'll be waitlisted even if they are stronger than some of their admits.

TJ students historically apply to too many schools and don't do a good enough job with their school-specific writing supplements to receive strong "yield scores".

[Anonymous]

Periodic reminder that TJ acceptances are going out soon...

... and that parents will say anything on these threads in order to sell you on turning down your spot so their kid can get in off the waitlist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Periodic reminder that TJ acceptances are going out soon...

... and that parents will say anything on these threads in order to sell you on turning down your spot so their kid can get in off the waitlist.

What was that that was false?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Periodic reminder that TJ acceptances are going out soon...

... and that parents will say anything on these threads in order to sell you on turning down your spot so their kid can get in off the waitlist.

What was that that was false?

Plenty. Not here to debate, just to state a pathetic reality about this forum.