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[quote=Anonymous]I am guessing that you are at a school that doesn’t send it’s full allotment of students to TJ and probably don’t have many kids apply. Did your child apply because he wanted to or was he heavily encouraged to apply by the school?

TJ really needs to be a kid wanting to go to TJ and be immersed in a deep academic experience. The kids need to want to be there. If he doesn’t want to be there and he is not really interested in Math and Science, then he is likely going to struggle. It sounds like he is an 8th grader in Algebra 1, which means that he is not going to be able to access some of the specialized classes because he is going to be at least one year, if not two years behind a good chink of the school.

Also, college admission out of TJ is more challenging because you do have so many high achieving kids. A C at TJ is not seen as a great grade for college admission, it is a C. And kids with A’s and B’s from other high schools in the area are going to be considered ahead of your kid. [/quote]

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