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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can someone share insights into SLAC (TOP/good) admissions after TJ?   I have a DS about to join TJ that will do 4 years of music and language.  Doesn't give much time to dig deep into any of the STEM subjects.   Do kids get into top SLACs from here?  What did the successful kids do/did while at TJ?

Note:  We have heard and considered the advice of not going to TJ.  Past all that so please don't repeat.[/quote]

Sorry OP, but gotta repeat it-- don't go to TJ and expect to do 4 years of music and 4 years of foreign language and then get into a SLAC.  Putting aside the fact it's a STEM school, you have two problems.

First,  you need to download the TJ diploma requirements and try to work out how you get all the extras needed for graduation from TJ worked in with 4 years of music, 4 years of language.   Including senior lab pre-recs.  You don't have the flexibility you think you have when you add in required 4 years in each of the core classes (cannot be met in summer school, except on social studies class), plus Design tech, plus CS before junior year, plus research lab, plus research lab pre-recs, plus 2 years of PE, plus EPF.   That's 31 credits (assuming only one year of pre-recs for senior lab), and only 28 credits you can take during the school year.  To make your plan is logistically feasible, add three years of summer school, and no extra anything (plus no senior labs that require more than 2 semesters of pre-recs. Which is most senior labs).

Second, if you can get everything crammed in, PE,the arts and foreign language are the only unweighted classes.  All those extra unweighted classes when all the other kids are taking APs and post APs mean that even if your kid have an UW GPA in the top 10% (very unlikely, because your kid is not there for the STEM and they don't mess around with math at TJ), their weighted GPA will be in the bottom half of their class-- probably bottom quarter.   And zero wiggle room in their schedule means zero extra APs.  That is a very non-rigorous schedule out of TJ.  Non-rigorous plus low GPA makes it pretty unlikely that they are admitted to a SLAC.   Even if kids are getting into Pomona, your kid won't.  So people can tell you which SLAC their kids got into. But I can't see you finding someone who will say 4 years of language, 4 years of arts, prestigious SLAC.

We tried to do 4 years of music, 2 years of lanupguage (just make it out) and DC ended up having to sit out of music his sophomore year to make it work.

If you want 4 years of language, 4 years of music and SLAC, TJ is the wrong school. Do full IB diploma instead.

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