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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are many many variables in college admissions. Time to write and space to write limit the discussion included in this post.

At either magnet school, college admissions is strongly impacted by the student's (approximate) class rank. Even if no official class rank is calculated, colleges will impute an approximate class rank from the school profile.

For college admissions, it is better to be in the top 20%-25% of the graduating class at any magnet (or top 10%-20% of a non-magnet) than it is to be in the bottom 50%.

This is one reason some students will have better college admissions odds from their geographic zoned HS. 
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If the OP is asking about top colleges then I don't think they are concerned that their kid falls into the group of kids that are A students at base schools and B/C students at TJ.

Yes, the kids in the bottom half of TJ would have better college entrance results at their base school but they are likely more prepared for their college experience coming out of TJ.
The kids at the very top of TJ, the pathway to top schools is wider.  No guarantees but wider.
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