Nobody feels bad for kids left out of bar-hopping, sorry. The kids that really want to drink will just go to parties.

No decision yet - mechanical engineering.

Have a look at this thread: https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1146250.page

Anonymous wrote:And everyone knows in the grand scheme of life no one cares what HS you went to and where your HS ranked nationally. Seriously, unless your 21 see if anyone at your job gives a F about where you went to HS and what your HS was ranked.

Have you ever met anyone from Baltimore?

From: https://www.riverfronttimes.com/news/whered-you-go-to-high-school-is-not-just-a-st-louis-question-2601105

"Baltimoreans always ask, 'Where did you go to school?' and it always means, 'Where did you go to high school,'" one reader tells The Atlantic. "Baltimore is a working-class town, and college was not an aspiration for folks. Your identity, character, life's trajectory was defined in toto by the place you went to high school."

It didn't seem that hard for my current senior. I don't know if AP CS is an easy 5 for most kids or if it's easier for TJ kids in general. However, his teacher said that everyone would get a 5. I can't say if they all actually did, but my son did. The class that really kicked his butt was AI with Gabor.

Regarding world languages, starting at 7th grade would be perfect. I know OP is considering having their kid start in 8th, but you should really want your kid to be in level III of their course by freshman year. By then the less serious kids have been weeded out, and a good number of the kids sticking it out are going to want to take an AP course in the language.

I taught at Elon for a few years (2011-2015) when I was a grad student at UNC. It was a 45-minute drive from my house in Durham. While not huge cities, Durham and Chapel Hill have a lot to offer and are not too far away if anyone's worried about Elon being in the middle of nowhere. Raleigh is closer to an hour away. Elon's only 25 minutes from Greensboro, not a world class city by any stretch, but it somehow tends to get a ton of good concerts at the Greensboro Coliseum. Elon also has a law school in Greensboro.

The students at Elon were about 80% OOS, especially from the Northeast. (At UNC it was about the opposite with some 80% being in-state students.) The OOS students at Elon were especially into their Greek life and would often wear buttons and gear with their Greek letters. I heard that about 1/3 of the school was in Greek life. Things may have changed by now.

I enjoyed most of my classes and had a lot of fun teaching there. There was a program there to allow professors and students to have lunch together on or just off campus. I'd take 5 students to lunch each semester, starting with whoever showed up to office hours first. I'd also take struggling students or students that were just really into Spanish.

I once invited my advanced Spanish class to a musical being put on by Cuban performers at UNC. They carpooled to my house for dinner, and we drove the 10 minutes to UNC. Those were good times.

Speaking of good times, College Coffee on Tuesday mornings was always fun. I could catch up with colleagues and students while enjoying coffee and a snack.

During the week, OP's kid will be busy with going to class, studying and socializing. If your kid really wants to explore, I'm sure they'll get to visit RDU, Greensboro and Charlotte at some point while they're at Elon.

I wrote a letter of rec for a student to get into McIntire. She didn't get in, but she was a VA resident and stayed and graduated with a different major. An OOS kid asked me to write a recommendation as well. He, however, wasn't sure if he'd get into McIntire, so his recommendation was for the colleges he was applying to in case he had to transfer. He could not see his future at UVA if he were not to get into McIntire.

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TheSpanishDoctor wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any idea how did TJ kids do in this ED/EA cycle for UVA?

My TJ kid got into UVA and VT yesterday. The missus kept nagging me all 4 years that it would never happen because he went to TJ rather than his base school.

Congratulations!! Please share the stats and major of your TJ kid.

4.4 GPA (weighted) and aerospace engineering at both schools. I have degrees from three top 25s, and I taught at UVA for several years. I was able to coach my son a bit on his essays. For example, he wrote a few negative things about himself, and I asked him to either reframe those experiences in a positive light or include other, better examples.

There was a PP doubting that anyone could go without ever getting anything lower than an A. My son just got the first B+ of his life in multivariable calculus in January (1-semester dual enrollment course). I teach in Arlington, and I know there are a ton of students who have never had anything less than an A. APS doesn't have an A-, so it's a quite generous A at 90-100. There is no A+ either. My son wasn't crushed to get his B+. In fact, he hasn't even brought it up to me and seems to just keep living his life. But I have seen more than one high schooler basically lose it when getting less than an A in one of my courses. I feel like bumping someone up from an 89.3 to a 90 is like giving them 10 free points at a school like mine. I just won't do it and think a B+ is a very good grade. Plus, I am very much against inflating grades, but I'd better stop before I rant.

Anonymous wrote:Any idea how did TJ kids do in this ED/EA cycle for UVA?

My TJ kid got into UVA and VT yesterday. The missus kept nagging me all 4 years that it would never happen because he went to TJ rather than his base school.

Call the main office and have them send any emergency message to your kid, just like back in my day.