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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a kid that applied to TJ this year, and a senior non-TJ kid in a regular public HS so just curious. How is the college admissions from TJ looking so far, now that a lot of EA/ED decisions are out? Are TJ parents happy (so far) with how things turned out? We are not too keen but kid wanted to try taking the test.[/quote]

For the same level of effort, a kid going to base HS will have far better college outcomes relative to TJ, but a kid going to TJ will get a far better, superior education.  MY DC and (several others) breezed through at least sophomore year at top OOS schools, most maintaining 4.0 GPAs.  Def. not possible for a kid out of base HS because they don't lay the same foundation.  But comparable kids (kids that chose not to go to TJ and kids that were waitlisted but didn't quite make the cut) who went to base HS, mostly got into ivies/T20 schools, which the TJ kids struggled to get into.  Pick your poison based on your kid. Mine would not have worked as hard at base as he did at TJ.  If your's is like that, TJ is better. If yours is self-driven, motivated, has initiative, etc. base might work out.  They will have more time to do all the EC nonsense, start clubs that don't exist, etc. and 'pretty up' their profiles for the college admissions process, more difficult to do at TJ.[/quote]

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