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[quote=Anonymous][quote][b]Harvard was Harvard long before there were rankings of any sort[/b]. Didn't need a magazine that was on the verge of folding before they started doing lists to tell ME that.

And again,[b] given the brainpower and resources concentrated at TJ[/b], I'm not that awed by the fact that a group of students there built a satellite. It's a great thing sure, but I'm more impressed by students who do amazing things at schools where they're not constantly being told their the best and the brightest and sponsored by half of corporate America.

As for the last sentence. Punctuation is bad, but I think most people got the point: [b]Kid at underrated school got into Harvard on his own merits[/b] and probably without parents being apoplectic about sending him to the school with the highest average SAT scores.[/quote]

Harvard is Harvard only because very capable and bright kids want to attend the school. These bright kids want to attend Harvard partly/entirely due to the reputation/rankings. Without all the capable and bright students, Harvard will not be Harvard.

Also, TJ is not the only high school with concentrated brainpower and resources. Comparable schools would be Stuyvesant, Bronx Science, Montgomery Blair Science Magnet, IMSA, Bergen County, Hunter, Lowell etc. etc. I don't see any of them building a satellite and launching it into orbit. If it is such a given, almost all of them should have done the same or a similar thing.

Finally, you don't think TJ kids get into colleges on their own merit? In fact, many people think it's better not to attend TJ in order to get into one of the top colleges since they think attending a base school offers a better chance & less competition. Most TJ kids choose TJ because of the challenging environment TJ offers knowing full well that it will be much tougher to make it into the top 10% or top 20% etc. In fact, many TJ kids turn DOWN acceptances from Harvard, MIT, Princeton and other top colleges to attend UVA, VTech, CMU or W&M. It's not that parents are sending kids to a school with the highest SAT scores, rather it is that the students at TJ happen to score high on the SAT scores. I hope you can see the difference.

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