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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It would be interesting if they could somehow come up with a test that can't be prepped for.  My kid did not prep, but we knew a lot of kids who did prep very extensively during middle school.

Not all, but many of those kids who prepped had to continue that "prep" mindset while they were at TJ. There were kids there who had to have tutors and outside help for a number of courses every year, plus they needed summer school and extra help for that each summer. Some kids privately took summer courses then took the same course during the school year in hopes of getting a better grade.

My kid and other friends of his who did not prep did not need all this outside help and managed to graduate with high GPAs and are at great schools now, most of them majoring in engineering, physics, math, and other STEM fields.

I would love to see what the school would be like if it were populated by kids who hadn't prepped and didn't need outside help to understand their course work. 
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I studied hard. I went to Harvard. DH studied hard. DH was just telling our son how many tests he had to prep for. the so called prep he did as a teenager does not compare to the amount of studying he did in mrs school. You are kidding yourself if you think your precious child will not be studying and prepping for tests. We are not ashamed of our hard efforts and hope our kids have the same work ethic.[/quote]

Many people find this difficult to understand (or at least profess to be unable to understand it), but "prepping" for a test like the TJ test is different from studying for a test in a course. It does a kid no favors to prep to get accepted to a program that they can't handle.

TJ is a place for the brightest kids. Yes, they all need to study and work really hard, but that is different from needing to go home and work with a personal tutor almost every day. Kids that bright should not need constant tutoring and handholding with outside programs to succeed. Kids in programs that are overwhelming for them are more likely to be stressed out and more likely to be tempted to cheat. 
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