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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The whole point of this thread is to address the question, "does TJ help with college admissions"?

I have present data reported from the Naviance page showing where kids like my daughter were admitted.  My daughter is a good student, mostly A's with an occaisional B and decent PSAT scores (not a NMSF).  But she did not take any prep course for the PSAT.  She will for the SAT, mostly to get more familitiar with strategies for the test.

The answer was a kid like my daughter probably would have no benefit at TJ for college admissions.  She is probably in the top 10% (school does not rank) of her school.  Definitely the top 15%.

My point was that someone like my daughter:  top 15% at a better school -- and madision is a better school, has a 45% chance at UVA, 73% chance at W & M, and near certainty at Va Tech (not seperating engineering).  And they have about a 5-10% chance of getting into an elite.

These numbers are not much different from TJ overall. [/quote]

or to put it another way TJ helps for the top 10% of TJ who would be awesome at their base schools too but who actually are extremely bright and take advantage of the uniqueness of TJ

for the middle of the class to the top 10% its a wash they would have had similar college results from base school

for the bottom 50% of TJ it hurts and results are lower than if they would have stayed at base school and been 10% vs the bottom half of TJ.

So overall for TJ 10% net positive 40% neutral and 50% negative.  You do the math folks[/quote]

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