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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was an alumni interviewer for Stanford for a few years, and a few of the kids I interviewed from other schools were admitted, but the very impressive students from TJ were not.

To be competitive for admissions I think you really need to stand out from your classmates. It's harder to do that at TJ than at a school like Washington-Liberty (from which two were admitted that I know of). In choosing a high school for my kids, I'm looking for a place where they can take a full load of AP courses and where their classmates are well-disciplined and less likely to negatively influence my kids. The average test scores should be high enough that the universities are convinced that the classes are sufficiently rigorous. And there should be a cohort of students who are high-achieving so that the kids can encourage each other, but it doesn't bother me that there are also a large number of "average" students--in fact I want that so my child can stand out more easily. If the school has a few elite college admissions in a single year, then I know it's capable of producing those results.[/quote]

Would high marks on AP exams satisfy the “rigorous class” requirement?  I am the PP with kids who attended the low rated high school, but they and their peers got mostly 5s on AP exams. I would think that demonstrates the classes they took were rigorous enough. [/quote]

I would hope so--I'm not an admissions officer, so I never actually saw the files, but I did get a good feel for the kids. I'd think a college would want to measure your kid against some kind of external standards, and AP exams, the SAT, and the ACT are the best thing to go off of. Btw, one of my classmates at Stanford went to one of the very worst schools in our hometown (while I went to the best public school). So it certainly didn't prevent his admission. [/quote]

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