TJ or Edison, which do you think would get your high achieiving kid into a better college?

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Anonymous wrote:Not the OP, but housing is a big investment. Not everyone wants to move repeatedly. Better to ask now, than after you have a mortgage.

Yeah, but her kids could get into TJ from anywhere around Fairfax County. She doesn't need to buy a house somewhere else, if her goal for her kids is TJ. Also, if she'd be happy with Edison, one could argue that she'd be happy with any high school in Fairfax County. So, again, she could buy anywhere. This particular question has nothing to do with housing choices, really.

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Having the 'smartest kid in the HS" CAN be an advantage, but that is a bigger gamble than just sending them to a good HS in the first place. College will be very hard for the kid who took it easy and made all As, like 30% of the class in FCPS do. Don't know anything about Edison, so please I am not talking about this school. I am talking about TJ.

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You think 30% of the class makes straight As at TJ without studying? And if they do, college will be hard? That's a joke, right? TJ grads get to MIT and find it easy, LOL.

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Anonymous wrote:Having the 'smartest kid in the HS" CAN be an advantage, but that is a bigger gamble than just sending them to a good HS in the first place. College will be very hard for the kid who took it easy and made all As, like 30% of the class in FCPS do. Don't know anything about Edison, so please I am not talking about this school. I am talking about TJ.

Only about 1% of TJ students graduate with all As and they have to work very hard to get those all As.

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And PP when they get those As, I bet they are in any college or university they choose.

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Anonymous wrote:Having the 'smartest kid in the HS" CAN be an advantage, but that is a bigger gamble than just sending them to a good HS in the first place. College will be very hard for the kid who took it easy and made all As, like 30% of the class in FCPS do. Don't know anything about Edison, so please I am not talking about this school. I am talking about TJ.

No, I meant other than TJ.

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Anonymous wrote:And PP when they get those As, I bet they are in any college or university they choose.

Actually that's not true. I know a TJ grad who had all A's except for one B, as well as a nearly perfect SAT score, and she didn't get into any Ivies. She went to UVA.

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Anonymous wrote:And PP when they get those As, I bet they are in any college or university they choose.

Actually that's not true. I know a TJ grad who had all A's except for one B, as well as a nearly perfect SAT score, and she didn't get into any Ivies. She went to UVA.

Maybe she wanted to go to UVA.

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Anonymous wrote:And PP when they get those As, I bet they are in any college or university they choose.

Actually that's not true. I know a TJ grad who had all A's except for one B, as well as a nearly perfect SAT score, and she didn't get into any Ivies. She went to UVA.

Maybe she wanted to go to UVA.

She got into Duke, Rice, Carnegie Mellon and UVA. Did not get into Harvard (one parent had a Harvard grad degree), Brown, Columbia, Princeton, Penn or UC Berkeley. Participated in 2 varsity sports, plus other extracurriculars. I know all of this because I'm good friends with her mom.

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Anonymous wrote:And PP when they get those As, I bet they are in any college or university they choose.

Actually that's not true. I know a TJ grad who had all A's except for one B, as well as a nearly perfect SAT score, and she didn't get into any Ivies. She went to UVA.

Maybe she wanted to go to UVA.

She got into Duke, Rice, Carnegie Mellon and UVA. Did not get into Harvard (one parent had a Harvard grad degree), Brown, Columbia, Princeton, Penn or UC Berkeley. Participated in 2 varsity sports, plus other extracurriculars. I know all of this because I'm good friends with her mom.

Maybe she didn't take advanced post AP math or post AP science courses that most top students at TJ take.

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Anonymous wrote:And PP when they get those As, I bet they are in any college or university they choose.

Actually that's not true. I know a TJ grad who had all A's except for one B, as well as a nearly perfect SAT score, and she didn't get into any Ivies. She went to UVA.

Maybe she wanted to go to UVA.

She got into Duke, Rice, Carnegie Mellon and UVA. Did not get into Harvard (one parent had a Harvard grad degree), Brown, Columbia, Princeton, Penn or UC Berkeley. Participated in 2 varsity sports, plus other extracurriculars. I know all of this because I'm good friends with her mom.

What do you consider "near perfect SAT score"? Near perfect SAT score by TJ standard is 2370+.

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Anonymous wrote:And PP when they get those As, I bet they are in any college or university they choose.

Actually that's not true. I know a TJ grad who had all A's except for one B, as well as a nearly perfect SAT score, and she didn't get into any Ivies. She went to UVA.

Maybe she wanted to go to UVA.

She got into Duke, Rice, Carnegie Mellon and UVA. Did not get into Harvard (one parent had a Harvard grad degree), Brown, Columbia, Princeton, Penn or UC Berkeley. Participated in 2 varsity sports, plus other extracurriculars. I know all of this because I'm good friends with her mom.

Maybe she didn't take advanced post AP math or post AP science courses that most top students at TJ take.

I have had 2 kids at TJ so I'm familiar with the curriculum. Her only B was in an AP/post AP science class that gives many students their first B. I know she took Calc BC in 10th grade and then the math classes that follow in 11th and 12th. And to address the SAT score, I know her math and CR scores were each 800, writing was a little less. Also had 800s on all her SAT IIs and 5's on her APs. She is very happy at UVA - is getting great job/internship offers and her parents are happy to pay for grad school as she saved them so much money by choosing a state school over a private.

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Anonymous wrote:And PP when they get those As, I bet they are in any college or university they choose.

Actually that's not true. I know a TJ grad who had all A's except for one B, as well as a nearly perfect SAT score, and she didn't get into any Ivies. She went to UVA.

Maybe she wanted to go to UVA.

She got into Duke, Rice, Carnegie Mellon and UVA. Did not get into Harvard (one parent had a Harvard grad degree), Brown, Columbia, Princeton, Penn or UC Berkeley. Participated in 2 varsity sports, plus other extracurriculars. I know all of this because I'm good friends with her mom.

Maybe she didn't take advanced post AP math or post AP science courses that most top students at TJ take.

I have had 2 kids at TJ so I'm familiar with the curriculum. Her only B was in an AP/post AP science class that gives many students their first B. I know she took Calc BC in 10th grade and then the math classes that follow in 11th and 12th. And to address the SAT score, I know her math and CR scores were each 800, writing was a little less. Also had 800s on all her SAT IIs and 5's on her APs. She is very happy at UVA - is getting great job/internship offers and her parents are happy to pay for grad school as she saved them so much money by choosing a state school over a private.

Well, do you think she would've gotten into those other schools if she had gone to Edison?

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Anonymous wrote:And PP when they get those As, I bet they are in any college or university they choose.

Actually that's not true. I know a TJ grad who had all A's except for one B, as well as a nearly perfect SAT score, and she didn't get into any Ivies. She went to UVA.

Maybe she wanted to go to UVA.

She got into Duke, Rice, Carnegie Mellon and UVA. Did not get into Harvard (one parent had a Harvard grad degree), Brown, Columbia, Princeton, Penn or UC Berkeley. Participated in 2 varsity sports, plus other extracurriculars. I know all of this because I'm good friends with her mom.

Maybe she didn't take advanced post AP math or post AP science courses that most top students at TJ take.

I have had 2 kids at TJ so I'm familiar with the curriculum. Her only B was in an AP/post AP science class that gives many students their first B. I know she took Calc BC in 10th grade and then the math classes that follow in 11th and 12th. And to address the SAT score, I know her math and CR scores were each 800, writing was a little less. Also had 800s on all her SAT IIs and 5's on her APs. She is very happy at UVA - is getting great job/internship offers and her parents are happy to pay for grad school as she saved them so much money by choosing a state school over a private.

Well, do you think she would've gotten into those other schools if she had gone to Edison?

What does it matter where she got in? She's going to UVA where plenty of kids from other FCPS high schools are going without having had to go to TJ.

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Anonymous wrote:And PP when they get those As, I bet they are in any college or university they choose.

Actually that's not true. I know a TJ grad who had all A's except for one B, as well as a nearly perfect SAT score, and she didn't get into any Ivies. She went to UVA.

Maybe she wanted to go to UVA.

She got into Duke, Rice, Carnegie Mellon and UVA. Did not get into Harvard (one parent had a Harvard grad degree), Brown, Columbia, Princeton, Penn or UC Berkeley. Participated in 2 varsity sports, plus other extracurriculars. I know all of this because I'm good friends with her mom.

Maybe she didn't take advanced post AP math or post AP science courses that most top students at TJ take.

I have had 2 kids at TJ so I'm familiar with the curriculum. Her only B was in an AP/post AP science class that gives many students their first B. I know she took Calc BC in 10th grade and then the math classes that follow in 11th and 12th. And to address the SAT score, I know her math and CR scores were each 800, writing was a little less. Also had 800s on all her SAT IIs and 5's on her APs. She is very happy at UVA - is getting great job/internship offers and her parents are happy to pay for grad school as she saved them so much money by choosing a state school over a private.

Not the PP, but I'm astounded that that kid didn't get into any school she applied to. Amazing.

Well, do you think she would've gotten into those other schools if she had gone to Edison?