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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^ is it brain drain to TJ? They should show results by home school. [/quote]

Why? The four years spent at TJ in a specialized cirriculum and a wholly different cohort of kids is so different. [/quote]

But it would explain why there are fewer top schools for the other affluent high schools. 
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Of course it would be a fun exercise, but that science experiment would have so problems with it, too many variables are different for the TJ/base school student.[/quote]

It’s really not that complicated to create a list. ?? [/quote]

Because going to TJ changes the calculus in terms of workload and GPA and curriculum and skill set.  Just graduating from TJ is a huge accomplishment. I have one kid at TJ, and one at Chantilly.  So unlike many people on this board, I can directly compare.  The DC at TJ iliterally put in twice the outside of school work for a lower freshman GPA. (I can only compare freshman year right now).  Workload and expectations wise TJ isn’t “just another FCPS high school”.  It isn’t just the specialized classes. It’s how much more they expect of kids— in Biology (TJ teaches out of the AP book at AP level in 9th). Math (TJ compresses A2 and pre-Calc into 3 semesters, and adds in additional materials), the extra classes (including design tech and the stupid robot), the senior research lab my older DC is about to start, the three years of summer schlol my TJ kid did. The sheer number of projects,labs and lab reports,  etc.  the years of homework until 1 am.

My TJ kid is the older one, and will graduate having acquired the research and writing skills yes u would expect of a college grad from a good SLAC. College visits were eye opening, because DC has already acquired much of their research and writing curriculum.

Chantilly kid is rising sophomore, so I’d like to see the curriculum for the next couple of years.  But I believe they will graduate from Chantilly prepared to succeed at a top college— where they will need to acquire the research and writing skills the TJ kid already has.

My kids have tested as IQs within 2 points of each other.  Both had 4.0s in MS out of Carson AAP.  Both did similar activities. Both had similar math entrance exam schores, althouth the TJ kid did better in reading. Chantilly kid is actually better with executive functioning and more hardcore STEM with a real passion vs my “I like everything p” TJ kid. .  From where I sit entrance was a craps shoot— TJ saw something in one kids recs and SIS that they did not in the other.   And I think that if they were rally looking for demonstrated STEM passion, they chose the wrong kid.

Both my kids will likely end up at the same college (WM or VT Science for one, Engineering for the other— neither are fans of UVA). Unless they get merit aid, we can’t afford OOS or private.  But they will not enter college on the same footing.  TJ kid will just be better prepared.  Chantilly kid will have to work a lot harder.

What you are asking is like taking all the top private school kids and reporting their colleges with McLean.  The HS you attend, the academic rigor, the peer group you have are a big part of where you get into college and how you do once you get there. You know this. Or you would have spent less money and bought into Lee or Mt. Vernon. [/quote]

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