Best High Schools in America for Top Universities

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Anonymous wrote:TJHS is totally better than elite New England boarding schools!

Said nobody, ever. TJ tiger parents are so desperate and intense. Striver city.

For STEM it probably is better.

Yeah, connections and soft skills are totally overrated! Hope your kids enjoy being back office grinds.

Maybe you haven't heard, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan etc. for example are cutting thousand of Investment Banking division jobs (soft skills) while increasingly hiring more and more "Strats", "Quants" and "Quant Traders" for their front office divisions. Guess what these strats, quants and quant traders studied? That's right-math, CS, stat and physics!

You would be surprised how well poised and well-rounded these strats/quants are at these large IBs are these days. You should get out more.

Oh, same goes for big consulting firms like McKinsey, Bain, Boston Consulting etc. Guess which majors they hire more than history grad from Harvard or English major from Yale? Engineering majors, CS majors etc. from top 20 universities with high gpas. Just getting a degree in"easy" major from the Ivies are not cutting it anymore. Automation/AI is hitting these places big time. as well.

This must be jarring to many TJ haters around here. Revenge of the Nerds!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:TJHS is totally better than elite New England boarding schools!

Said nobody, ever. TJ tiger parents are so desperate and intense. Striver city.

For STEM it probably is better.

Yeah, connections and soft skills are totally overrated! Hope your kids enjoy being back office grinds.

Maybe you haven't heard, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan etc. for example are cutting thousand of Investment Banking division jobs (soft skills) while increasingly hiring more and more "Strats", "Quants" and "Quant Traders" for their front office divisions. Guess what these strats, quants and quant traders studied? That's right-math, CS, stat and physics!

You would be surprised how well poised and well-rounded these strats/quants are at these large IBs are these days. You should get out more.

Oh, same goes for big consulting firms like McKinsey, Bain, Boston Consulting etc. Guess which majors they hire more than history grad from Harvard or English major from Yale? Engineering majors, CS majors etc. from top 20 universities with high gpas. Just getting a degree in"easy" major from the Ivies are not cutting it anymore. Automation/AI is hitting these places big time. as well.

This must be jarring to many TJ haters around here. Revenge of the Nerds!

Nope. The Harvard grads run things. They hire the quants to do the grunt work.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:TJHS is totally better than elite New England boarding schools!

Said nobody, ever. TJ tiger parents are so desperate and intense. Striver city.

For STEM it probably is better.

Yeah, connections and soft skills are totally overrated! Hope your kids enjoy being back office grinds.

Maybe you haven't heard, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan etc. for example are cutting thousand of Investment Banking division jobs (soft skills) while increasingly hiring more and more "Strats", "Quants" and "Quant Traders" for their front office divisions. Guess what these strats, quants and quant traders studied? That's right-math, CS, stat and physics!

You would be surprised how well poised and well-rounded these strats/quants are at these large IBs are these days. You should get out more.

Oh, same goes for big consulting firms like McKinsey, Bain, Boston Consulting etc. Guess which majors they hire more than history grad from Harvard or English major from Yale? Engineering majors, CS majors etc. from top 20 universities with high gpas. Just getting a degree in"easy" major from the Ivies are not cutting it anymore. Automation/AI is hitting these places big time as well.

This must be jarring to many TJ haters around here. Revenge of the Nerds!

Nope. The Harvard grads run things. They hire the quants to do the grunt work.

But did they study history, sociology, women's studies? Probably not. Zuckerberg was into computers since he was 9 or 10. Gates was into computers since high school at least. Jobs was into computers early on as well. Bezo was actually a "quant" at Two Sigma before starting Amazon. Elon Musk studies physics as an undergraduate and received Ph.D in physics as well. Bezos studied EE and CS. CEO of Google studied engineering. I can go on and on but you get the picture.

You need more than a history degree from Harvard these days.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:TJHS is totally better than elite New England boarding schools!

Said nobody, ever. TJ tiger parents are so desperate and intense. Striver city.

For STEM it probably is better.

Yeah, connections and soft skills are totally overrated! Hope your kids enjoy being back office grinds.

Maybe you haven't heard, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan etc. for example are cutting thousand of Investment Banking division jobs (soft skills) while increasingly hiring more and more "Strats", "Quants" and "Quant Traders" for their front office divisions. Guess what these strats, quants and quant traders studied? That's right-math, CS, stat and physics!

You would be surprised how well poised and well-rounded these strats/quants are at these large IBs are these days. You should get out more.

Oh, same goes for big consulting firms like McKinsey, Bain, Boston Consulting etc. Guess which majors they hire more than history grad from Harvard or English major from Yale? Engineering majors, CS majors etc. from top 20 universities with high gpas. Just getting a degree in"easy" major from the Ivies are not cutting it anymore. Automation/AI is hitting these places big time as well.

This must be jarring to many TJ haters around here. Revenge of the Nerds!

Nope. The Harvard grads run things. They hire the quants to do the grunt work.

But did they study history, sociology, women's studies? Probably not. Zuckerberg was into computers since he was 9 or 10. Gates was into computers since high school at least. Jobs was into computers early on as well. Bezo was actually a "quant" at Two Sigma before starting Amazon. Elon Musk studies physics as an undergraduate and received Ph.D in physics as well. Bezos studied EE and CS. CEO of Google studied engineering. I can go on and on but you get the picture.

You need more than a history degree from Harvard these days.

Who would want their child to live a life like any of those guys? Jeff Bezos, Musk and Zuckerberg? no thanks

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:TJHS is totally better than elite New England boarding schools!

Said nobody, ever. TJ tiger parents are so desperate and intense. Striver city.

For STEM it probably is better.

Yeah, connections and soft skills are totally overrated! Hope your kids enjoy being back office grinds.

Maybe you haven't heard, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan etc. for example are cutting thousand of Investment Banking division jobs (soft skills) while increasingly hiring more and more "Strats", "Quants" and "Quant Traders" for their front office divisions. Guess what these strats, quants and quant traders studied? That's right-math, CS, stat and physics!

You would be surprised how well poised and well-rounded these strats/quants are at these large IBs are these days. You should get out more.

Oh, same goes for big consulting firms like McKinsey, Bain, Boston Consulting etc. Guess which majors they hire more than history grad from Harvard or English major from Yale? Engineering majors, CS majors etc. from top 20 universities with high gpas. Just getting a degree in"easy" major from the Ivies are not cutting it anymore. Automation/AI is hitting these places big time as well.

This must be jarring to many TJ haters around here. Revenge of the Nerds!

Nope. The Harvard grads run things. They hire the quants to do the grunt work.

But did they study history, sociology, women's studies? Probably not. Zuckerberg was into computers since he was 9 or 10. Gates was into computers since high school at least. Jobs was into computers early on as well. Bezo was actually a "quant" at Two Sigma before starting Amazon. Elon Musk studies physics as an undergraduate and received Ph.D in physics as well. Bezos studied EE and CS. CEO of Google studied engineering. I can go on and on but you get the picture.

You need more than a history degree from Harvard these days.

Who would want their child to live a life like any of those guys? Jeff Bezos, Musk and Zuckerberg? no thanks

Plenty of americans do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In a global economy where white male privilege is on the way out, I like TJ kids’ and Stuy kids chances. They got where they are on 100% merit, no connections.

And I have a friend who is in her mid 40s and was in one of the first couple of TJ classes. It has not yet had any crop of kids get past mid career. Let alone since Tj became TJ!!!!!!! And yet the alumni fund is actively partnering with the school to get kids internships and jobs at Google and the like and has poured millions of dollars into the renovation and is Justin’s starting to reach the point where they can effectively advocate for TJ kids at colleges.

30 years ago, TJ was a new economic development experiment where the nerds started to find their own. Now look at it. And imagine where it will be when there are twice as many alums.

America is on it’s way out. Every thing is “data-driven” these days. America does not do a good job of teaching math and analyzing data except for top-performers. I think for the qualitative types there will always be PR.

[Anonymous]

Your lives are so small.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:TJHS is totally better than elite New England boarding schools!

Said nobody, ever. TJ tiger parents are so desperate and intense. Striver city.

For STEM it probably is better.

Yeah, connections and soft skills are totally overrated! Hope your kids enjoy being back office grinds.

Maybe you haven't heard, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan etc. for example are cutting thousand of Investment Banking division jobs (soft skills) while increasingly hiring more and more "Strats", "Quants" and "Quant Traders" for their front office divisions. Guess what these strats, quants and quant traders studied? That's right-math, CS, stat and physics!

You would be surprised how well poised and well-rounded these strats/quants are at these large IBs are these days. You should get out more.

Oh, same goes for big consulting firms like McKinsey, Bain, Boston Consulting etc. Guess which majors they hire more than history grad from Harvard or English major from Yale? Engineering majors, CS majors etc. from top 20 universities with high gpas. Just getting a degree in"easy" major from the Ivies are not cutting it anymore. Automation/AI is hitting these places big time as well.

This must be jarring to many TJ haters around here. Revenge of the Nerds!

Nope. The Harvard grads run things. They hire the quants to do the grunt work.

But did they study history, sociology, women's studies? Probably not. Zuckerberg was into computers since he was 9 or 10. Gates was into computers since high school at least. Jobs was into computers early on as well. Bezo was actually a "quant" at Two Sigma before starting Amazon. Elon Musk studies physics as an undergraduate and received Ph.D in physics as well. Bezos studied EE and CS. CEO of Google studied engineering. I can go on and on but you get the picture.

You need more than a history degree from Harvard these days.

Dang dude where have you been the last 15 years?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:TJHS is totally better than elite New England boarding schools!

Said nobody, ever. TJ tiger parents are so desperate and intense. Striver city.

For STEM it probably is better.

Yeah, connections and soft skills are totally overrated! Hope your kids enjoy being back office grinds.

Maybe you haven't heard, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan etc. for example are cutting thousand of Investment Banking division jobs (soft skills) while increasingly hiring more and more "Strats", "Quants" and "Quant Traders" for their front office divisions. Guess what these strats, quants and quant traders studied? That's right-math, CS, stat and physics!

You would be surprised how well poised and well-rounded these strats/quants are at these large IBs are these days. You should get out more.

Oh, same goes for big consulting firms like McKinsey, Bain, Boston Consulting etc. Guess which majors they hire more than history grad from Harvard or English major from Yale? Engineering majors, CS majors etc. from top 20 universities with high gpas. Just getting a degree in"easy" major from the Ivies are not cutting it anymore. Automation/AI is hitting these places big time as well.

This must be jarring to many TJ haters around here. Revenge of the Nerds!

Nope. The Harvard grads run things. They hire the quants to do the grunt work.

But did they study history, sociology, women's studies? Probably not. Zuckerberg was into computers since he was 9 or 10. Gates was into computers since high school at least. Jobs was into computers early on as well. Bezo was actually a "quant" at Two Sigma before starting Amazon. Elon Musk studies physics as an undergraduate and received Ph.D in physics as well. Bezos studied EE and CS. CEO of Google studied engineering. I can go on and on but you get the picture.

You need more than a history degree from Harvard these days.

Who would want their child to live a life like any of those guys? Jeff Bezos, Musk and Zuckerberg? no thanks

The people see no appeal in the lifestyle of Executives who bang anything that moves and see their kids twice a week while their surgically enhanced wife does everything else to be pretty toxic. For starters.

[Anonymous]

Wow! Good brains on these Asians.

[Anonymous]

" Yale made a mistake not investing in STEM. "

Yale made an even bigger mistake not leaving CT with GE when GE escaped to Boston.

[Anonymous]

" Stuy is a high-FARMS school. "

What is a high-FARMS school?

Foreign And Recent MigrantS ?

[Anonymous]

" Yale made a mistake not investing in STEM. "

When (a) Vassar College was still a women-only SLAC, (b) ibm was still IBM, and (c) IBM/Poughkeepsie was still the be-all-end-all place for anything/everything having to do with STEM in general and computers in particular, IBM offerred Vassar College a blank check, technical faculty out the wazoo, serious graduates students like you would never believe, and fully-equipped laboratories to boot to aid and abet Vassar College become the MIT on the Hudson.

The trustees said YES but the anti-STEM faculty said NO and threatened to go out on strike.

I often think "what might have been" when I hear of women bemoaning their status in the economy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Elon Musk studies physics as an undergraduate and received Ph.D in physics as well.

Not that facts matter on DCUM, but he actually dropped out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:" Yale made a mistake not investing in STEM. "

When (a) Vassar College was still a women-only SLAC, (b) ibm was still IBM, and (c) IBM/Poughkeepsie was still the be-all-end-all place for anything/everything having to do with STEM in general and computers in particular, IBM offerred Vassar College a blank check, technical faculty out the wazoo, serious graduates students like you would never believe, and fully-equipped laboratories to boot to aid and abet Vassar College become the MIT on the Hudson.

The trustees said YES but the anti-STEM faculty said NO and threatened to go out on strike.

I often think "what might have been" when I hear of women bemoaning their status in the economy.

Interesting. Citation on that?