TJ Math 4

[Anonymous]

Actually my PP was a bit snarky. I am a parent of a TJ senior. When DC started I looked at the 9th grade IBET research stats syllabi. I was anxious as DC and I had already been told DC had the hardest IBET. RS was an utter unknown, being the first year and all. I stealthily tried to follow along to make sure DC was keeping up - DC is way too independent to allow help. And I lost pace about 2 weeks into 9th grade. Seriously - the courses move so fast and your DC will be learning so much ... give them an open field and let them run and learn AND fail. That hardest IBET had several Fs in store for DC and many of his peers along the way. (You can probably Google IBET Fs and get examples or just watch the Class of 2018 Homecoming video on youtube to see some).

But they made it. And are now applying to colleges. And if the past is any indicator, about 100 will make it into Ivies. The others maybe MIT or Duke or Stanford or Chicago. (Where TJ kids go to college is also available online). And some smart ones will go to unheard of places for special research, or guaranteed med school admission, or a free ride, or a modern art curriculum. It wasn’t all easy but they will get there.

However - if you are master over a slaving DC and only came to TJ to have DC be #1 at TJ and get in all the Ivies - well, it’s really really unlikely to happen. Pull your kid, move to Idaho and home school ... maybe the geographic diversity will work better for you.

[Anonymous]

100 make it into Ivies???? BS. Enrolled in Ivies last year was 43 or so. You can't count acceptances because many of the very top students were accepted to several Ivies.
Harvard - 4
Yale - 4
Princeton - 6
Columbia - 4
Cornell - 13
Penn - 6
Brown - 3
Dartmouth - 0

[Anonymous]

Even more to the point, then - come to TJ to let your DC experience a great, though at times difficult, education, and let your DC be in charge. Do not look at it as an easy ride to an Ivy for college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Even more to the point, then - come to TJ to let your DC experience a great, though at times difficult, education, and let your DC be in charge. Do not look at it as an easy ride to an Ivy for college.

This. If you make it to the top 10-20% of TJ and get into and Ivy, it will have been an incredibly difficult ride. Much more difficult than what it takes to go Ivy from a base school. You go to TJ for the challenge, for the extra classes, for the special labs, or for the amazing peer group. You are not going to get an Ivy edge unless you do something with TJ— like a patent or a Siemens finalist slot or National Physics Olympics team— that you could not do from your base school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Math 4 classes had their second test. How did your DC fare on this one? Mine did just a bit better, but still nowhere near what she's used to. We are seriously considering some tutoring help, but really don't know where to find it. I would really appreciate any suggestion in finding a teacher familiar with TJ math curriculum.

My son did really well in Unit Test 2. Scored 99/100. Here is what he did. Worked on most problems from the text book. It was close to around 200 problems. It took him lot of hard work to get to where he is grade wise ( which is still a upper B Plus). Rest of the other courses were either high A's or low A's. 90 percent of him time went to only Math 4. We thought of finding a tutor in the beginning of second unit. but later we thought that only way to get familiarized with all the concepts is to solve each and every problem in the text book. Hope this helps.

I'm the PP who asked for advice. Thank you so much for sharing your son's experience!

To all the PPs who claimed that they don't get involved in their DC's studying, well good for you! If my DD is struggling and is asking for my advice, you can be sure that I'll do my best to steer her in the right direction. These are 14-15 year old kids and still need parental guidance. And there is nothing wrong in being involved in your kids studying and knowing how hard they work to improve their grades.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:100 make it into Ivies???? BS. Enrolled in Ivies last year was 43 or so. You can't count acceptances because many of the very top students were accepted to several Ivies.
Harvard - 4
Yale - 4
Princeton - 6
Columbia - 4
Cornell - 13
Penn - 6
Brown - 3
Dartmouth - 0

That is pathetic lol. Thats supposedly the best of an area of 1.5 million people lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:100 make it into Ivies???? BS. Enrolled in Ivies last year was 43 or so. You can't count acceptances because many of the very top students were accepted to several Ivies.
Harvard - 4
Yale - 4
Princeton - 6
Columbia - 4
Cornell - 13
Penn - 6
Brown - 3
Dartmouth - 0

That is pathetic lol. Thats supposedly the best of an area of 1.5 million people lol

These numbers are misleading. Off hand I know 4 kids who were admitted to at least one Ivy and chose to attend a non-Ivy. And that doesn't even take into account the MIT kids.