How important is TJ for college?

[Anonymous]

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Well, you're not really making a case against acceleration by telling us that you didn't have precalculus and went straight to Calculus from Algebra 2 & Trig. A normal course of study woukd be alg 1, geometry, algebra 2&Trig, precalc, then calc. Kids,in precalc, do have some review of Algebra 2 & Trig, but also learn new material. Are you suggesting the "smart" kids skip precalc and go directly from alg 2 to Calc?

The meds are fogging your mind. The Pre-Calculus class it took covered all the material between Geometry and Calculus. It really doesn't matter what the school system calls its particular math sequence. See, even Wikipedia has this definition:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precalculus

No, I'm perfectly clear. You are against acceleration, but you are giving an example (yourself) of even more acceleration. Gosh, I hope you're not a lawyer.

I hope you aren’t a teacher or in any field that requires intelligence because you don’t understand how to read a post. Trig is actually considered pre calc and she even stated that. In her school they combined trig with Alg 2. Both taken before calc. Which made up her pre calc class. Get it?

[Anonymous]

But I'm a he...

All these comments just for a stupid little comment that I like to give my DD grief about her "decelerated" math at TJ. I really didn't mean anything important by it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:But I'm a he...

All these comments just for a stupid little comment that I like to give my DD grief about her "decelerated" math at TJ. I really didn't mean anything important by it.

For TJ grads, almost all colleges (with few exceptions such as Caltech, MIT, Berkeley known for grade deflation) are easier than HS. My kid who graduated from TJ recently has a 4.0 GPA in STEM major at one of the 3 schools mentioned.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:But I'm a he...

All these comments just for a stupid little comment that I like to give my DD grief about her "decelerated" math at TJ. I really didn't mean anything important by it.

For TJ grads, almost all colleges (with few exceptions such as Caltech, MIT, Berkeley known for grade deflation) are easier than HS. My kid who graduated from TJ recently has a 4.0 GPA in STEM major at one of the 3 schools mentioned.

are we supposed to care?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:But I'm a he...

All these comments just for a stupid little comment that I like to give my DD grief about her "decelerated" math at TJ. I really didn't mean anything important by it.

For TJ grads, almost all colleges (with few exceptions such as Caltech, MIT, Berkeley known for grade deflation) are easier than HS. My kid who graduated from TJ recently has a 4.0 GPA in STEM major at one of the 3 schools mentioned.

are we supposed to care?

The pp is stating a fact. Who cares if you care

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:But I'm a he...

All these comments just for a stupid little comment that I like to give my DD grief about her "decelerated" math at TJ. I really didn't mean anything important by it.

For TJ grads, almost all colleges (with few exceptions such as Caltech, MIT, Berkeley known for grade deflation) are easier than HS. My kid who graduated from TJ recently has a 4.0 GPA in STEM major at one of the 3 schools mentioned.

Unfortunately TJ seems to have more *hole parents than most schools. Your bragging is embarrassing. I feel for your kid.
-a TJ parent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:But I'm a he...

All these comments just for a stupid little comment that I like to give my DD grief about her "decelerated" math at TJ. I really didn't mean anything important by it.

For TJ grads, almost all colleges (with few exceptions such as Caltech, MIT, Berkeley known for grade deflation) are easier than HS. My kid who graduated from TJ recently has a 4.0 GPA in STEM major at one of the 3 schools mentioned.

Unfortunately TJ seems to have more *hole parents than most schools. Your bragging is embarrassing. I feel for your kid.
-a TJ parent.

Wait till you meet some Langley or McLean parents..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:But I'm a he...

All these comments just for a stupid little comment that I like to give my DD grief about her "decelerated" math at TJ. I really didn't mean anything important by it.

For TJ grads, almost all colleges (with few exceptions such as Caltech, MIT, Berkeley known for grade deflation) are easier than HS. My kid who graduated from TJ recently has a 4.0 GPA in STEM major at one of the 3 schools mentioned.

Unfortunately TJ seems to have more *hole parents than most schools. Your bragging is embarrassing. I feel for your kid.
-a TJ parent.

Wait till you meet some Langley or McLean parents..

+1,000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:But I'm a he...

All these comments just for a stupid little comment that I like to give my DD grief about her "decelerated" math at TJ. I really didn't mean anything important by it.

For TJ grads, almost all colleges (with few exceptions such as Caltech, MIT, Berkeley known for grade deflation) are easier than HS. My kid who graduated from TJ recently has a 4.0 GPA in STEM major at one of the 3 schools mentioned.

Unfortunately TJ seems to have more *hole parents than most schools. Your bragging is embarrassing. I feel for your kid.
-a TJ parent.

You don't sound like a TJ parent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:But I'm a he...

All these comments just for a stupid little comment that I like to give my DD grief about her "decelerated" math at TJ. I really didn't mean anything important by it.

For TJ grads, almost all colleges (with few exceptions such as Caltech, MIT, Berkeley known for grade deflation) are easier than HS. My kid who graduated from TJ recently has a 4.0 GPA in STEM major at one of the 3 schools mentioned.

But don’t you want college to be more challenging than high school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:But I'm a he...

All these comments just for a stupid little comment that I like to give my DD grief about her "decelerated" math at TJ. I really didn't mean anything important by it.

For TJ grads, almost all colleges (with few exceptions such as Caltech, MIT, Berkeley known for grade deflation) are easier than HS. My kid who graduated from TJ recently has a 4.0 GPA in STEM major at one of the 3 schools mentioned.

But don’t you want college to be more challenging than high school?

Yes. That is why my kid is attending one of the most challenging schools named above with rigorous curriculum and no grade inflation at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:But I'm a he...

All these comments just for a stupid little comment that I like to give my DD grief about her "decelerated" math at TJ. I really didn't mean anything important by it.

For TJ grads, almost all colleges (with few exceptions such as Caltech, MIT, Berkeley known for grade deflation) are easier than HS. My kid who graduated from TJ recently has a 4.0 GPA in STEM major at one of the 3 schools mentioned.

But don’t you want college to be more challenging than high school?

Yes. That is why my kid is attending one of the most challenging schools named above with rigorous curriculum and no grade inflation at all.

Was your kid a TJ grad?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:But I'm a he...

All these comments just for a stupid little comment that I like to give my DD grief about her "decelerated" math at TJ. I really didn't mean anything important by it.

For TJ grads, almost all colleges (with few exceptions such as Caltech, MIT, Berkeley known for grade deflation) are easier than HS. My kid who graduated from TJ recently has a 4.0 GPA in STEM major at one of the 3 schools mentioned.

But don’t you want college to be more challenging than high school?

Yes. That is why my kid is attending one of the most challenging schools named above with rigorous curriculum and no grade inflation at all.

Was your kid a TJ grad?

Yes. It says in the PP.

[Anonymous]

Unless your child is in the top 10% of the TJ class, it probably hurts more than it helps. UVA does not want 250 kids from TJ. But they will take 70 from Madison, Mclean, Langley. (and 150 from TJ). Presumably any kid at TJ could be in the top 70 students at the base school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unless your child is in the top 10% of the TJ class, it probably hurts more than it helps. UVA does not want 250 kids from TJ. But they will take 70 from Madison, Mclean, Langley. (and 150 from TJ). Presumably any kid at TJ could be in the top 70 students at the base school

Average for the past five years or so is close to 200 acceptances not 150 from TJ. 70 sounds high for other schools as well. Anyway, UVA is a backup at TJ.