TJ and High Stat rejections

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does it really matter so much where to study CS? I know a lot of IT professionals who got their degrees from a no name college overseas and are doing great here in the US. My child is a high stat junior at TJ, wants to study CS and will do great after any college. MIT, Stanford - awesome. UVA, VA Tech, GMU - fine, will be successful too.

IT does not equal CS. You should know that as a parent of TJ student.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I heard Caltech’s multivariable calculus is easier than TJ’s.

LOL no

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does it really matter so much where to study CS? I know a lot of IT professionals who got their degrees from a no name college overseas and are doing great here in the US. My child is a high stat junior at TJ, wants to study CS and will do great after any college. MIT, Stanford - awesome. UVA, VA Tech, GMU - fine, will be successful too.

IT does not equal CS. You should know that as a parent of TJ student.

Firstly, I don’t do homework with my child - why am I supposed to know what they know? Secondly, I commonly refer to anybody who works in IT or CS as “IT professional”. At work, everybody refers to the team working on any software or hardware as “IT team”.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does it really matter so much where to study CS? I know a lot of IT professionals who got their degrees from a no name college overseas and are doing great here in the US. My child is a high stat junior at TJ, wants to study CS and will do great after any college. MIT, Stanford - awesome. UVA, VA Tech, GMU - fine, will be successful too.

IT does not equal CS. You should know that as a parent of TJ student.

Firstly, I don’t do homework with my child - why am I supposed to know what they know? Secondly, I commonly refer to anybody who works in IT or CS as “IT professional”. At work, everybody refers to the team working on any software or hardware as “IT team”.

True, but some posters are extremely petulant. You should know that as a parent of a TJ student.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To do CS anywhere, why do high school at TJ? Why not at local public where no test in is required?

After TJ they can sleepwalk college.

Not really. As a TJ parent and having know many TJ kids, this is not true at all. They may be able to cut their college by a semester to a year at best.

As a former TJ parent, I think PP means that most TJ kids find college to be easier and less stressful than high school. I know my kids felt that way.