Just as many (likely more) smart, motivated kids in NOVA as DC and MD, so why the VA private school contempt?

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Anonymous wrote:Every single kid at TJ easily holds his or her own the the best privates in DC and Maryland. And each graduating class at TJ is as Big as the Big 3 graduating classes combined. And it’s free. Between that and Potomac NOVA is served just fine.

TJ kids are great at taking tests, but would not survive socially at the top privates. They don’t focus on social skills at TJ.

I bet you thought the Harvard personality scores were fine

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:These kids have to go to private school somewhere.

No, they don't.

[Anonymous]

I would like to add BIM to this discussion. Always looked down upon.

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Anonymous wrote:Every single kid at TJ easily holds his or her own the the best privates in DC and Maryland. And each graduating class at TJ is as Big as the Big 3 graduating classes combined. And it’s free. Between that and Potomac NOVA is served just fine.

TJ kids are great at taking tests, but would not survive socially at the top privates. They don’t focus on social skills at TJ.

That’s funny.

I do a bunch of interviewing for my college and in general I find the TJ kids brilliant but socially awkward

Alumni interviewers are pathetic losers whose input is inconsequential to the admissions process. Colleges allow it only for alumni relations, and alumni do it only to feel important and relive what they think are their glory days.

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Anonymous wrote:Because the privates you listed don't have better academics than FCPS. If you have the money for Madeira, you have the money for a house in-bounds for Langley. Whereas in DC, a middling neighborhood Catholic school blows DCPS out of the water.

Not true at all. Wilson is the same as Langley. Roosevelt is the same as Herndon. DCPS is very similar to FCPS.

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Anonymous wrote:Because the privates you listed don't have better academics than FCPS. If you have the money for Madeira, you have the money for a house in-bounds for Langley. Whereas in DC, a middling neighborhood Catholic school blows DCPS out of the water.

Not true at all. Wilson is the same as Langley. Roosevelt is the same as Herndon. DCPS is very similar to FCPS.

Respectfully, you are probably the only person in the DMV who believes this

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Anonymous wrote:Every single kid at TJ easily holds his or her own the the best privates in DC and Maryland. And each graduating class at TJ is as Big as the Big 3 graduating classes combined. And it’s free. Between that and Potomac NOVA is served just fine.

TJ kids are great at taking tests, but would not survive socially at the top privates. They don’t focus on social skills at TJ.

That’s funny.

I do a bunch of interviewing for my college and in general I find the TJ kids brilliant but socially awkward

Alumni interviewers are pathetic losers whose input is inconsequential to the admissions process. Colleges allow it only for alumni relations, and alumni do it only to feel important and relive what they think are their glory days.

NP. Ouch…. But true!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Every single kid at TJ easily holds his or her own the the best privates in DC and Maryland. And each graduating class at TJ is as Big as the Big 3 graduating classes combined. And it’s free. Between that and Potomac NOVA is served just fine.

TJ kids are great at taking tests, but would not survive socially at the top privates. They don’t focus on social skills at TJ.

+1 and I know a lot of them.

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Anonymous wrote:These kids have to go to private school somewhere. Most families do not want to schlep across the bridge to DC or MD. That leaves a small handful of private high schools for these kids. So why are Potomac, Madeira, Episcopal, etc always either dismissed or treated with disdain? These schools have incredible facilities, academics and college placement.

What's up with the MD and DC snobbery?

And don't tell me they're all in FCPS, because that is just not true. FCPS is just as bad as MCPS or DCPS.

Sorry, your premise is wrong. FCPS has its flaws but it’s better overall than DCPS and MCPS.

MCPS run circles around FCPS. No one can even come close to compete with MCPS.
And there's only one good school worth mentioning in FCPS.

[Anonymous]

All of you are so insecure.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Every single kid at TJ easily holds his or her own the the best privates in DC and Maryland. And each graduating class at TJ is as Big as the Big 3 graduating classes combined. And it’s free. Between that and Potomac NOVA is served just fine.

TJ kids are great at taking tests, but would not survive socially at the top privates. They don’t focus on social skills at TJ.

I bet you thought the Harvard personality scores were fine

I thought they were accurate

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Every single kid at TJ easily holds his or her own the the best privates in DC and Maryland. And each graduating class at TJ is as Big as the Big 3 graduating classes combined. And it’s free. Between that and Potomac NOVA is served just fine.

TJ kids are great at taking tests, but would not survive socially at the top privates. They don’t focus on social skills at TJ.

That’s funny.

I do a bunch of interviewing for my college and in general I find the TJ kids brilliant but socially awkward

Alumni interviewers are pathetic losers whose input is inconsequential to the admissions process. Colleges allow it only for alumni relations, and alumni do it only to feel important and relive what they think are their glory days.

You sound like an angry TJ parent who also has no social skills. Sorry your kid won’t get into an Ivy because they never learned how to make eye contact with an adult

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Every single kid at TJ easily holds his or her own the the best privates in DC and Maryland. And each graduating class at TJ is as Big as the Big 3 graduating classes combined. And it’s free. Between that and Potomac NOVA is served just fine.

TJ kids are great at taking tests, but would not survive socially at the top privates. They don’t focus on social skills at TJ.

That’s funny.

I do a bunch of interviewing for my college and in general I find the TJ kids brilliant but socially awkward

Alumni interviewers are pathetic losers whose input is inconsequential to the admissions process. Colleges allow it only for alumni relations, and alumni do it only to feel important and relive what they think are their glory days.

You sound like an angry TJ parent who also has no social skills. Sorry your kid won’t get into an Ivy because they never learned how to make eye contact with an adult

Hit a nerve, I see.

Well, everyone sees it.

NP.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Every single kid at TJ easily holds his or her own the the best privates in DC and Maryland. And each graduating class at TJ is as Big as the Big 3 graduating classes combined. And it’s free. Between that and Potomac NOVA is served just fine.

TJ kids are great at taking tests, but would not survive socially at the top privates. They don’t focus on social skills at TJ.

That’s funny.

I do a bunch of interviewing for my college and in general I find the TJ kids brilliant but socially awkward

Alumni interviewers are pathetic losers whose input is inconsequential to the admissions process. Colleges allow it only for alumni relations, and alumni do it only to feel important and relive what they think are their glory days.

You sound like an angry TJ parent who also has no social skills. Sorry your kid won’t get into an Ivy because they never learned how to make eye contact with an adult

Hit a nerve, I see.


Well, everyone sees it.

NP.

I think I'll be ok. I'll continue to give the TJ kids who stare at their shoes while chewing their fingernails a "do not admit" after our interviews. Maybe one will get through with this in their file but it hasn't happened yet.

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Anonymous wrote:Every single kid at TJ easily holds his or her own the the best privates in DC and Maryland. And each graduating class at TJ is as Big as the Big 3 graduating classes combined. And it’s free. Between that and Potomac NOVA is served just fine.

TJ kids are great at taking tests, but would not survive socially at the top privates. They don’t focus on social skills at TJ.

That’s funny.

I do a bunch of interviewing for my college and in general I find the TJ kids brilliant but socially awkward

The ones I've had were really interesting and well-spoken. I interviewed one this cycle that had a really unusual extracurricular that we talked a lot about.